emancipation
[ih-man-suh-pey-shuh n]
- the act of emancipating.
- the state or fact of being emancipated.
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Origin of emancipation
1625–35; < Latin ēmancipātiōn- (stem of ēmancipātiō), equivalent to ēmancipāt(us) (see emancipate) + -iōn- -ion
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Contemporary Examples
But from the anguish of soulless industrial lagers rises the emancipation of artisan brewing.
The Emancipation Proclamation, as Nancy Pelosi reminds us, was an executive action.
Education for everyone, land sharing, emancipation of women, and equal rights for black Cubans.
That's why their emancipation is such a threat to cruel patriarchal power.
Free blacks in particular, Davis writes, “provided the key to emancipation.”
Historical Examples
Do you find them in the emancipation of the South American Republics?
The Works of Whittier, Volume VII (of VII)John Greenleaf Whittier
Some discontent was caused by the emancipation of the serfs.
Emancipation--Ruin--Golden Rule, in your meaning, carried out.
Slavery Ordained of GodRev. Fred A. Ross, D.D.
Portugal, Spain, and Russia, are moving in the work of emancipation.
Cleveland Past and PresentMaurice Joblin
God has a great deal to do before he is ready for emancipation.
Slavery Ordained of GodRev. Fred A. Ross, D.D.
emancipation
- the act of freeing or state of being freed; liberation
- informal freedom from inhibition and convention
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Word Origin and History for emancipation
n.
1630s, "a setting free," from French émancipation, from Latin emancipationem (nominative emancipatio), noun of action from past participle stem of emancipare (see emancipate). Specifically with reference to U.S. slavery from 1785. In Britain, with reference to easing of restrictions on Catholics, etc.
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