emancipate
verb (used with object)
to free from restraint, influence, or the like.
have emancipated
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present perfectof emancipate.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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“We have emancipated youth who, the banks will still give them a hard time about opening a bank account,” she said.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 2023
She protests that I have emancipated her from slavery.
From Some Private Views by James Payn
Our girls were no sooner emancipated by their mothers from the usually wholesome—if sometimes too severe—control of their fathers, than straightway they have emancipated themselves from the indispensable maternal rule.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy
For the better security of these new-born civil rights we are now about to pass the greatest and the grandest act in this series of acts that have emancipated a race and disinthralled a nation.
From History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by William Horatio Barnes
How mistaken and roundabout have been our efforts to reach it by mystic passion, and monastic reverie; how they have deflowered the flesh; how little they have emancipated us!
From The Renaissance Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater
