emancipation

[ih-man-suh-pey-shuh n]

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noun

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

Related formsnon·e·man·ci·pa·tion, nounpre·e·man·ci·pa·tion, nounself-e·man·ci·pa·tion, noun

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But from the anguish of soulless industrial lagers rises the emancipation of artisan brewing.
House of the Witch: The Renegade Craft Brewers of Panama|Jeff Campagna|November 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The Emancipation Proclamation, as Nancy Pelosi reminds us, was an executive action.
Why We Can’t Quit Calling Presidents ‘Kings’|Kevin Bleyer|November 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
That's why their emancipation is such a threat to cruel patriarchal power.
Forgotten Mothers|Tina Brown|May 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Southerners aggressively downplayed the idea that the Civil War was a war for emancipation of the enslaved African-Americans.
Star-Spangled Confederates: How Southern Sympathizers Decided Our National Anthem|Jefferson Morley|July 4, 2013|DAILY BEAST

“Very few juvenile courts will allow a child to even file for emancipation,” Lemley says.
Want to Get Emancipated From Your Parents? Better Be Rich|Eliza Shapiro|May 17, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Everybody knows the steps by which this embodied selfishness achieved his emancipation from a dominant Church.
The Eighteen Christian Centuries|James White
I hear you constantly loudly demanding the emancipation of your sex.
Her Royal Highness Woman|Max O'Rell
Prejudices: celibacy of priests, futility of adultery, emancipation of woman.
Bouvard and Pcuchet, part 2|Gustave Flaubert
Cruce and Leclerc, all ready to march under the guidance of your highness, to the emancipation of religion and the throne.
Chicot the Jester|Alexandre Dumas, Pere
President Lincoln's Proclamation of Emancipation was then read, and enthusiastically cheered.
The Freedmen's Book|Lydia Maria Child

British Dictionary definitions for emancipation

emancipation

noun

the act of freeing or state of being freed; liberation

informal freedom from inhibition and convention

Derived Formsemancipationist, noun

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Word Origin and History for emancipation

emancipation

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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