For the later sense development, compare ingenuity. If you were able-bodied and about thirty-five, the war was how you reached common ground, began a relationship, or just blew time waiting in line at the post office. For sense connection of "being one of the nation" and "free," compare Latin liber "free," from the same root as German Leute "nation, people" (see liberal (adj.)) and Slavic "free" words (Old Church Slavonic svobodi, Polish swobodny, Serbo-Croatian slobodan) which are cognates of the first element in English sibling "brother, sister" (in Old English used more generally: "relative, kinsman"). For fifteen years now the lingua franca among men Vernon’s agestrangers, pals, business acquaintances, anyone who’d been in high school in 1941was war talk. Ī generalization of the tribal name the connection is that Franks, as the conquering class, alone had the status of freemen in a world that knew only free, captive, or slave. Hence, while openness is consistent with timidity, frankness implies some degree of boldness. Frank, literally, free the freedom may be in regard to one's own opinions, which is the same as openness, or in regard to things belonging to others, where the freedom may go so far as to be unpleasant, or it may disregard conventional ideas as to reticence. 1300, "free, liberal, generous " 1540s, "outspoken," from Old French franc "free (not servile) without hindrance, exempt from sincere, genuine, open, gracious, generous worthy, noble, illustrious" (12c.), from Medieval Latin francus "free, at liberty, exempt from service," as a noun, "a freeman, a Frank" (see Frank).
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