half-free in English

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Etymology: From Middle English *half-free, from Old English healffrēo (“half-free”), equivalent to half- + free. Cognate with Dutch halfvrij (“half-free”), German halbfrei (“half-free”), Danish halvfri (“half-free”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|*half-free}} Middle English *half-free, {{inh|en|ang|healffrēo|t=half-free}} Old English healffrēo (“half-free”), {{prefix|en|half|free}} half- + free, {{cog|nl|halfvrij|t=half-free}} Dutch halfvrij (“half-free”), {{cog|de|halbfrei|t=half-free}} German halbfrei (“half-free”), {{cog|da|halvfri|t=half-free}} Danish halvfri (“half-free”) Head templates: {{en-adj|-|head=half-free}} half-free (not comparable)

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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English *half-free, from Old English healffrēo (“half-free”), equivalent to half- + free. Cognate with Dutch halfvrij (“half-free”), German halbfrei (“half-free”), Danish halvfri (“half-free”).",
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        {
          "ref": "2013, Matthew W. Cody, Peter Stuyvesant: Dutch Leader of New Netherland (New York)",
          "text": "Many half-free slaves were forced to continue to work for the Dutch West India Company even after they were set free, and the company even required half-free blacks to pay a yearly tax consisting of crops that they had raised on their farms.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, William Easterly, The Tyranny of Experts",
          "text": "“Half-free” meant that the slaves themselves were now free, but their children would return to slavery. The Dutch gave a half-free slave named Gratia d'Angola a 10acre farm in the 1640s, centered around what is today one block of Greene Street between Prince Street and Houston Street, in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Ernst van den Hemel, Asja Szafraniec, Words: Religious Language Matters",
          "text": "Yet first, the anonymous rabbis and students begin the sequence of explorations in legality of marriage between half-free people by using more general rules of betrothal.",
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        "Halfway or partially free."
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  "word": "half-free"
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    },
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        "t": "half-free"
      },
      "expansion": "German halbfrei (“half-free”)",
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    },
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        "t": "half-free"
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      "expansion": "Danish halvfri (“half-free”)",
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English *half-free, from Old English healffrēo (“half-free”), equivalent to half- + free. Cognate with Dutch halfvrij (“half-free”), German halbfrei (“half-free”), Danish halvfri (“half-free”).",
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          "ref": "2013, Matthew W. Cody, Peter Stuyvesant: Dutch Leader of New Netherland (New York)",
          "text": "Many half-free slaves were forced to continue to work for the Dutch West India Company even after they were set free, and the company even required half-free blacks to pay a yearly tax consisting of crops that they had raised on their farms.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, William Easterly, The Tyranny of Experts",
          "text": "“Half-free” meant that the slaves themselves were now free, but their children would return to slavery. The Dutch gave a half-free slave named Gratia d'Angola a 10acre farm in the 1640s, centered around what is today one block of Greene Street between Prince Street and Houston Street, in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Ernst van den Hemel, Asja Szafraniec, Words: Religious Language Matters",
          "text": "Yet first, the anonymous rabbis and students begin the sequence of explorations in legality of marriage between half-free people by using more general rules of betrothal.",
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        }
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"half-free" meaning in English

Adjective