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Latitude

noun

The angular distance between an imaginary line around a heavenly body parallel to its equator and the equator itself.

Freedom from normal restraints in conduct. "Allowed his children considerable latitude in how they spent their money"

An imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator. Synonyms: line of latitude, parallel, parallel of latitude.

Scope for freedom of e.g. action or thought; freedom from restriction.

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... the "Odes."—The Chou dynasty lasted from B.C. 1122 to B.C. 255. It was China's feudal age, when the empire, then included between latitude 34-40 and longitude 109-118, was split up into a number of vassal States, which owned allegiance to a suzerain State. And it is to the earlier centuries of the Chou dynasty that must be attributed the composition of a large ...

— Religions of Ancient China • Herbert A. Giles

... in his "Satire against Man," in pretty near the following manner. But I must first desire you always to remember that the versions I give you from the English poets are written with freedom and latitude, and that the restraint of our versification, and the delicacies of the French tongue, will not allow a translator to convey into it the licentious impetuosity and fire ...

— Letters on England • Voltaire

... marked, say, 5 may be stated as follows:—If any point in the curve be imagined as the centre of a rectangle whose sides are directed north-south and east-west, and are respectively one-sixth of a degree of latitude and longitude in length; then the number of epicentres within this rectangle is at the rate of ...

— A Study of Recent Earthquakes • Charles Davison

... the whole body of Christ and the communion of saints, has been often so perverted as to have become in the minds of many the grand test and evidence of sectarian division, while "hearing a sermon" is the utmost latitude which is given to the believer who wishes to testify his love to all who love the Lord Jesus in sincerity. "I would hear him preach, but I would not join with him," (i.e., I would not remember Christ with him,) is the strange ...

— Parish Papers • Norman Macleod

... But there is nothing wicked in your liking him." It may be presumed that Mr. Graham would hold such an opinion as this, seeing that he had allowed himself the same latitude of liking. "It was perhaps only natural that you should learn to do so. You have been taught to regard me rather as a master than as ...

— Orley Farm • Anthony Trollope

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