emancipate
verb (used with object)
to free from restraint, influence, or the like.
had been emancipating
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past perfect progressiveof emancipate.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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In Germany during the eighteenth century the greater universities had been emancipating themselves from the stricter forms of political and court favoritism and of ecclesiastical protection and control.
From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various
