emancipation

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Scrabble points
18
Words With Friends
23
Letters
12
Pronunciation
/ɪˌmæn.səˈpeɪ.ʃən/

Definition of emancipation

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (uncountable, usually)The act of setting free from the power of another, as from slavery, subjection, dependence, or controlling influence.
    “Ireland, last year, was to be paradise, if that Peri, emancipation, was but sent there; now it is a wretched, degraded, oppressed country, unless the Union be dissolved! What ever will it be the year after? So much for any certainty of right in this world!”
    “As a result of the strengthening of ethnolinguistic emancipation since the second half of the twentieth century, North Saami now enjoys probably stronger legal and institutional support than any other “minor” Uralic language[.]”
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noun

  1. (uncountable, usually)The act of setting free from the power of another, as from slavery, subjection, dependence, or controlling influence.
    “Ireland, last year, was to be paradise, if that Peri, emancipation, was but sent there; now it is a wretched, degraded, oppressed country, unless the Union be dissolved! What ever will it be the year after? So much for any certainty of right in this world!”
    “As a result of the strengthening of ethnolinguistic emancipation since the second half of the twentieth century, North Saami now enjoys probably stronger legal and institutional support than any other “minor” Uralic language[.]”
  2. (uncountable, usually)The state of being thus set free; liberation (used, for example, of slaves from bondage, of a person from prejudices, of the mind from superstition, of a nation from tyranny or subjugation).
    “US President Abraham Lincoln was called the Great Emancipator after issuing the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.”

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Etymology

1630, from French émancipation, from Latin ēmancipātiō. In the US, with reference to anti-slavery, abolitionism, first used in 1785 by Charles Godfrey Leland. In Britain, with reference to easing of restrictions on Catholics, in 19th century.

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