latitude

Noun

Meaning

Extent from side to side, or distance sidewise from a given point or line; breadth; width.

Room; space; freedom from confinement or restraint; hence, looseness; laxity; independence.

Extent or breadth of signification, application, etc.; extent of deviation from a standard, as truth, style, etc.

Extent; size; amplitude; scope.

Distance north or south of the equator, measured on a meridian.

The angular distance of a heavenly body from the ecliptic.

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The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth. Charles Lamb

We can be the generation that no longer accepts that an accident of latitude determines whether a child lives or dies. But will we be that generation? Bono

Thou wast a bauble once; a cup and ball, Which babes might play with; and the thievish jay Seeking her food, with ease might have purloined The auburn nut that held thee, swallowing down Thy yet close-folded latitude of boughs And all thine embryo vastness at a gulp. But fate thy growth decreed. William Cowper

In the intimacy of the One, Those souls are pure and inwardly naked, without images, without figures, As if liberated from time, uncreated, Freed from their limits in silent latitude. Hadewijch

They stand not aloof with the gaping vacuity of vulgar ignorance, nor bend with the cringe of sycophantic insignificance. The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man. Thomas Paine

A good fire gives the cook latitude. Sicilian Proverb

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