emancipate
verb (used with object)
to free from restraint, influence, or the like.
has emancipated
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present perfectof emancipate (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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“The German musical has emancipated itself from its American role models in a clever, mature and very Berlin way,” the paper’s critic, Hellmut Kotschenreuther, wrote.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2023
Once the slave of arbitrariness, Bjørn has emancipated himself only by a sovereign exaggeration of arbitrariness.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 15, 2018
He has emancipated all the slaves of the rebel States with his pen, but that is all.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The philosopher is made one who has emancipated himself from the heart and feelings,—a pure intelligence, who is set above all creeds, contemplating all, and holding none.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The abolition of domestic slavery has emancipated the millions who formerly toiled in bondage; the art of printing has multiplied an hundredfold the reading and thinking world.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 by Various
