emancipate
verb (used with object), e·man·ci·pat·ed, e·man·ci·pat·ing.
Origin of emancipate
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Related Words for emancipate
loosen, liberate, unbind, loose, deliver, enfranchise, disencumber, release, discharge, manumit, affranchise, unchain, disenthral, unfetter, unshackleExamples from the Web for emancipate
Contemporary Examples of emancipate
The desire to emancipate Greece, the birthplace of democracy, ran strong among the British for centuries.
Poet and Rake, Lord Byron Was Also an Interventionist With Brains and SavvyMichael Weiss
February 16, 2014
Was the president planning to act on the wishes of the radicals of his party and emancipate all the slaves?
Lincoln the Primitive Communicator? What He Can Teach Modern PoliticiansDouglas L. Wilson
December 15, 2012
Namely, that we are narcissistic, entitled, financial drains on our parents, unable to emancipate, and excessively solipsistic.
“Like so many other young people in this country, Timmy, when he reached age 18, was allowed to emancipate,” says Jeannette.
Historical Examples of emancipate
There was a Spartan law forbidding masters to emancipate their slaves.
PhilotheaLydia Maria Child
He could not emancipate himself sufficiently from the tumult of his own sympathies.
Diderot and the EncyclopdistsJohn Morley
It neither made him to be humane to his slaves, nor to emancipate them.
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick DouglassFrederick Douglass
And my family have been voting for two centuries to emancipate this fellow!
The Young DukeBenjamin Disraeli
The disposition to emancipate them is strongest in Virginia.
Anti-Slavery Opinions before the Year 1800William Frederick Poole