had been emancipating
- past perfect progressive of emancipate.
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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