Emancipation

Quick meaning: Emancipation is a noun meaning The act of setting free from the power of another, as from slavery, subjection, dependence, or controlling influence.

Meaning

The act of setting free from the power of another, as from slavery, subjection, dependence, or controlling influence.

More Meanings

1. The state of being thus set free; liberation (used, for example, of slaves from bondage, of a person from prejudices, of the mind from superstition, of a nation from tyranny or subjugation).

Example Sentences

US President Abraham Lincoln was called the Great Emancipator after issuing the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.

As a result of the strengthening of ethnolinguistic emancipation since the second half of the twentieth century, North Saami now enjoys probably stronger legal and institutional support than any other “minor” Uralic language[.]

Ireland, last year, was to be paradise, if that Peri, emancipation, was but sent there; now it is a wretched, degraded, oppressed country, unless the Union be dissolved! What ever will it be the year after? So much for any certainty of right in this world!

Word Forms

• emancipations

Synonyms for emancipation

Depending on context, synonyms include manumission, freeing.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include freeing, liberate, liberation, liberating, enfranchisement, release.

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