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
How did Black American music go from emancipatory code-switching within the Black community to an out-of-reach luxury that breaches the secrets of the community?
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2023
One might add that an emancipatory politics means that freedom cannot be either individualized or removed from the quest for economic and social justice.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2022
I just don’t think that there’s anything emancipatory about rejecting the opportunity to care for people you love.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2022
If there can be no question of the dependence of the emancipation movement on the Jews, the dependence of the Jews on the emancipatory movement is very real.
From The Shield by Avrahm Yarmolinsky
