emancipate
verb (used with object)
to free from restraint, influence, or the like.
emancipatory
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a word derived from
emancipate.
Example Sentences
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These actions undermined the slaveholders’ power, destabilized systems of slavery and, in some cases, hastened the enactment of emancipatory laws.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 26, 2026
The play transforms in the end to a feminist rally, but too many false farcical moves spoil the emancipatory fun.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2024
The current starburst of storytelling shines a different light on the region, he said: It is emancipatory, proposing freedom from recycled stories and foreign heroes.
From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2023
Politics loses its emancipatory possibilities if it cannot provide the educational conditions for enabling students and others to think against the grain, and to realize themselves as informed, critical and engaged individuals.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2022
The system of repressive and discriminating measures must give way to a graduated system of emancipatory and equalizing laws.
From History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) by I. Friedlaender
