emancipated

[ ih-man-suh-pey-tid ]

/ ɪˈmæn səˌpeɪ tɪd /

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adjective

not constrained or restricted by custom, tradition, superstition, etc.: a modern, emancipated woman.

freed, as from slavery or bondage.

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Origin of emancipated

First recorded in 1720–30; emancipate + -ed²

un·e·man·ci·pat·ed, adjective

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The two girls were legally emancipated and returned to the Covington household.
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My birth certificate was modified, I changed my name, and when I was sixteen I emancipated from my grandparents and my father.
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Rogue female knights and emancipated Wildlings are approaching the center of the story.
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Britain set the precedent when, in 1838, they emancipated all its 800,000 Caribbean slaves.
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I am quite sure that were I young in these emancipated times I should take full advantage of them.
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Above all, he must have emancipated himself, although in a friendly way, from the influence of Nicholas Rubinstein.
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He was somewhat inclined to sybaritism; not quite emancipated from the tendencies of his bourgeois youth.
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Man at last is emancipated and is now beginning to take his place side by side with woman.
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Reason had been more completely emancipated at the Reformation than it was at first at all aware of.
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