emancipate
to free from restraint, influence, or the like.
to free (a person) from bondage or slavery.
Roman and Civil Law. to terminate paternal control over.
Origin of emancipate
1synonym study For emancipate
Other words from emancipate
- e·man·ci·pa·tive, adjective
- e·man·ci·pa·tor, noun
- non·e·man·ci·pa·tive, adjective
- un·e·man·ci·pa·tive, adjective
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How to use emancipate in a sentence
When he finally self-emancipated, it was from Mount Vernon, on the president’s 65th birthday in 1797.
George Washington’s 1795 Thanksgiving celebrated liberty. But the chef behind the feast had none. | Ramin Ganeshram | November 19, 2020 | Washington PostShe makes her first scars on the world as an Emancipator, a blond Spartacist, Abe Lincoln with dragons.
Daenerys Goes to Washington: The Modern Politics of ‘Game of Thrones’ | Jedediah Purdy | April 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe great emancipator is featured sparingly, emerging dramatically through the mist at the top of the ad.
Abe Lincoln Burnishes His Brand Through Comedy Routines and Ads (Video) | The Daily Beast Video | February 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe son of the Great Emancipator was notoriously hostile to pleas from black Americans to integrate the service on his cars.
Why Can't Our Politics Improve Like Our Medicine? | David Frum | February 23, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTYes, the Great Emancipator used his first inaugural to call on his countrymen to heed “the better angels of our nature.”
The 16th president did not come out of the cradle as the Great Emancipator.
He was, as every one knows, a most horrible despot with his serfs, though he gave himself out for an emancipator.
Smoke | Turgenev Ivan SergeevichHe, however, declined the honor, whereupon the name of the South American emancipator was chosen.
The Admiral who had thus triumphed was hailed as Emancipator.
Charles Sumner; His Complete Works, Volume X (of 20) | Charles SumnerUpon Mr. B.'s assertion that Mr. Thompson's testimonies were of this worthless character, the Emancipator has the following note.
Discussion on American Slavery | George ThompsonLiberty was always the great emancipator's leading thought, and it breathes and glows in all his statutes concerning pauperism.
The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine | Heinrich Heine
British Dictionary definitions for emancipate
/ (ɪˈmænsɪˌpeɪt) /
to free from restriction or restraint, esp social or legal restraint
(often passive) to free from the inhibitions imposed by conventional morality
to liberate (a slave) from bondage
Origin of emancipate
1Derived forms of emancipate
- emancipated, adjective
- emancipative, adjective
- emancipator or emancipist, noun
- emancipatory (ɪˈmænsɪpətərɪ, -trɪ), adjective
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