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More/most free or frier and friest?

I just had a sudden thought about using the word "free" as an adjective. When used an adjective though, I am not sure about its comparative and superlative forms; is it more/most free or frier and friest?

Thanks in advance.

Elle
  

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[nq:1]I just had a sudden thought about using the word "free" as an adjective. [/nq] Freer and freest (pronounced free-er and free-est). Ray

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  • [/nq] Freer and freest (pronounced free-er and free-est).
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[nq:1]I just had a sudden thought about using the word "free" as an adjective. When used an adjective though, I am not sure about its comparative and superlative forms; is it more/most free or frier and friest?[/nq]
Freer and freest (pronounced free-er and free-est).

Ray
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[nq:1]I just had a sudden thought about using the word "free" as an adjective. When used an adjective though, I am not sure about its comparative and superlative forms; is it more/most free or frier and friest?[/nq]
"Freer" and "freest" as you could have seen if you had looked up "free" in the *Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary* at ht
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[nq:2]I just had a sudden thought about using the word ... superlative forms; is it more/most free or frier and friest?[/nq]
[nq:1]"Freer" and "freest" as you could have seen if you had looked up "free" in the *Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary* at http://www.m-w.com . What that entry does not tell you is that "more free" and "mos
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[nq:2]"Freer" and "freest" as you could have seen if you ... is that "more free" and "most free" are also acceptable.[/nq]
[nq:1]But aren't these superfluous? One is (or an item is) free or not. Graham[/nq]
A yeoman is freer than a serf and a serf is freer than a slave.
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[nq:1]adjective. in that[/nq]
[nq:2]But aren't these superfluous? One is (or an item is) free or not. Graham[/nq]
[nq:1]A yeoman is freer than a serf and a serf is freer than a slave.[/nq]
A yeoman is free. A serf is a slave with privileges.
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[nq:2]"Freer" and "freest" as you could have seen if you ... is that "more free" and "most free" are also acceptable.[/nq]
[nq:1]But aren't these superfluous? One is (or an item is) free or not. Graham[/nq]
The fact that the words "freer" and "freest" are given in a dictionary entry (in this case, M-W Online) means that they are indeed put to actual use modern dictionaries generally have n
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"graham" > >
[nq:2]A yeoman is freer than a serf and a serf is freer than a slave.[/nq]
[nq:1]A yeoman is free. A serf is a slave with privileges.[/nq]
True,but that doesn't render the above wrong.
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[nq:2]A yeoman is freer than a serf and a serf is freer than a slave.[/nq]
[nq:1]A yeoman is free. A serf is a slave with privileges.[/nq]
And someone with privileges is free to do certain things that those without are not, hence is to that extent freer than they. Likewise a knight could be said to be freer than a yeoman, having exclusive privileges such as the bearing of chivalric arms.
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[nq:2]I just had a sudden thought about using the word ... superlative forms; is it more/most free or frier and friest?[/nq]
[nq:1]"Freer" and "freest" as you could have seen if you had looked up "free" in the *Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary* at http://www.m-w.com . What that[/nq]
Nothing personal but why do so many people
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And if one is not satisified, it includes a link to m-w.com, and fills the same word in that one had looked up at www.dictionary.com . m-w doesn't do eitehr of these in reverse.
[nq:2]I just had a sudden thought about using the word ... superlative forms; is it more/most free or frier and friest?[/nq]
[nq:1]"Freer" and "freest" as you could have seen if you had looked up "free" in the *Mer
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