emancipate
verb (used with object)
to free from restraint, influence, or the like.
had emancipated
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past perfectof emancipate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Thomas Carper was a Union sympathizer during the Civil War, and records show that he had emancipated three enslaved people in 1855.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 16, 2021
The bomb thrown in 1881 at Tsar Alexander II, who had emancipated the serfs, woefully stymied reform in Russia.
From Economist ● Mar. 15, 2018
At 17 he had emancipated himself from his parents and founded a brokerage, selling it the following year.
From BusinessWeek ● Aug. 29, 2013
In the last 100 years, they had emancipated themselves from domestic tyranny, political and economic discrimination, laced-up corsets and knee-length bloomers.
From Time Magazine Archive
The spirit of liberty which had emancipated the colonies of North America from the aristocratic sway of England, shivering the scepter of feudal tyranny in France, had penetrated Hungary.
From The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
