emancipate
verb (used with object)
to free from restraint, influence, or the like.
were emancipating
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past progressiveof emancipate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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An age of philosophical 652 inventors seemed to arise; a new generation, who, each in his own way, were emancipating themselves from the dogmas of the ancient dictator.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
British fleets and the insurrection of St. Domingo were emancipating by very different methods.
From The English Utilitarians, Volume I. by Sir Leslie Stephen
The young men nowadays were emancipating themselves from the law and business and taking up all sorts of new things.
From The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
