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emancipate

[ ih-man-suh-peyt ]

verb (used with object)

emancipated, emancipating.
  1. to free from restraint, influence, or the like.
  2. to free (a person) from bondage or slavery.
  3. Roman and Civil Law. to terminate paternal control over.


emancipate

/ -tr瑟; 瑟藞m忙ns瑟p蓹t蓹r瑟; 瑟藞m忙ns瑟藢pe瑟t /

verb

  1. to free from restriction or restraint, esp social or legal restraint
  2. often passive to free from the inhibitions imposed by conventional morality
  3. to liberate (a slave) from bondage
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 别藞尘补苍肠颈藢辫补迟颈惫别, adjective
  • 别藞尘补苍肠颈藢辫补迟辞谤, noun
  • 别藞尘补苍肠颈藢辫补迟别诲, adjective
  • emancipatory, adjective
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 别路尘补苍路肠颈路辫补路迟颈惫别 adjective
  • 别路尘补苍路肠颈路辫补路迟辞谤 noun
  • non路别路尘补苍路肠颈路辫补路迟颈惫别 adjective
  • un路别路尘补苍路肠颈路辫补路迟颈惫别 adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of emancipate1

First recorded in 1615鈥25; from Latin 脓尘补苍肠颈辫腻迟耻蝉 (past participle of 脓尘补苍肠颈辫腻谤别 ) 鈥渇reed from control,鈥 equivalent to 脓- 鈥渙ut of, from鈥 ( e- 1 ) + man(us) 鈥渉and鈥 + -cip- (combining form of capere 鈥渢o seize鈥) + -腻迟耻蝉 past participle suffix ( -ate 1 )
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of emancipate1

C17: from Latin 脓尘补苍肠颈辫腻谤别 to give independence (to a son), from 尘补苍肠颈辫腻谤别 to transfer property, from manceps a purchaser; see manciple
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Synonym Study

See release.
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There is a lot of doublespeak, that as women, we have never been as emancipated and free to do what we want as we are today.

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At 15, Skye sought to be legally emancipated because other child actors had done the same as a means of averting the legal requirements of minors on set.

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鈥淪he鈥檚 a Black woman who found ways to liberate and emancipate herself in this society, in this world, on her own terms, and that鈥檚 what I take away from her legacy,鈥 said Christovale.

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Abraham Lincoln fibbed as well, telling newspaper readers in 1862 that he was not considering emancipating the Confederacy鈥檚 enslaved people when he鈥檇 already decided to do so.

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Latching on to the emancipating power of the word "semi," she wrote a "Semi-Homemade" cookbook, and then another.

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