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    e·man·ci·pa·tion
    /əˌmansəˈpāSH(ə)n/

    noun

    • 1. the fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberation: "the emancipation of feminist ideas"

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  2. www.merriam-webster.com › dictionary › emancipationEmancipation Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

    noun. Did you know? The Emancipation Proclamation, issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, ordered that enslaved people living in rebellious territories be released from the bonds of ownership and made free people—their own masters.

  3. www.merriam-webster.com › dictionary › emancipateEmancipate Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

    1. : to free from restraint, control, or the power of another. especially: to free from bondage. 2. : to release from parental care and responsibility and make sui juris. 3. : to free from any controlling influence (such as traditional mores or beliefs) emancipator. i-ˈman (t)-sə-ˌpā-tər. noun. emancipatory. i-ˈman (t)-sə-pə-ˌtȯr-ē. adjective.

  4. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › englishEMANCIPATION | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

    EMANCIPATION definition: 1. the process of giving people social or political freedom and rights: 2. the process of giving…. Learn more.

  5. www.vocabulary.com › dictionary › emancipationEmancipation - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | Vocabulary.com

    Emancipation is being set free from the control of someone or something. Your emancipation from your parents comes when you turn 18 and are legally considered an adult.

  6. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › englishEMANCIPATE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

    to free a person from another person’s control. (Definition of emancipate from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of emancipate. emancipate. Together they emancipated the art of experiment from being a mere craft activity and endowed it with the status of a science. From the Cambridge English Corpus.

  7. www.dictionary.com › browse › emancipationEMANCIPATION Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com

    Emancipation definition: the act of emancipating. . See examples of EMANCIPATION used in a sentence.

  8. www.dictionary.com › browse › emancipateEMANCIPATE Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com

    to free (a person) from bondage or slavery. Roman and Civil Law. to terminate paternal control over. emancipate. / -trɪ; ɪˈmænsɪpətərɪ; ɪˈmænsɪˌpeɪt / verb. to free from restriction or restraint, esp social or legal restraint. often passive to free from the inhibitions imposed by conventional morality. to liberate (a slave) from bondage.

  9. www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com › english › emancipationemancipation - Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

    Definition of emancipation noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

  10. www.collinsdictionary.com › dictionary › englishEMANCIPATION definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary

    2 meanings: 1. the act of freeing or state of being freed; liberation 2. informal freedom from inhibition and convention.... Click for more definitions.

  11. www.vocabulary.com › dictionary › emancipateEmancipate - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | Vocabulary.com

    If you emancipate someone, you set them free from something. At the end of the Civil War, slaves were emancipated and became free men and women.

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