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   emancipate

   /ɪˈmansɪpeɪt/

   verb

   • 1. set free, especially from legal, social, or political restrictions: "the people were emancipated from the shackles of oppression"
   • ▪ set (a child) free from the authority of its parents: "the plaintiffs had not been entirely emancipated from their father's control"
   • ▪ free (someone) from slavery: "it is estimated that he emancipated 8,000 slaves"

   Word Origin early 17th century: from Latin emancipat- ‘transferred as property’, from the verb emancipare, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out’ + mancipium ‘slave’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. emancipatory adjective

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   The meaning of EMANCIPATE is to free from restraint, control, or the power of another; especially : to free from bondage. How to use emancipate in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Emancipate.

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   EMANCIPATE definition: 1. to give people social or political freedom and rights 2. to give people social or political…. Learn more.

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   Emancipate definition: to free from restraint, influence, or the like.. See examples of EMANCIPATE used in a sentence.

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   EMANCIPATE meaning: 1. to give people social or political freedom and rights 2. to give people social or political…. Learn more.

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   Verb Forms. to free somebody, especially from legal, political or social controls that limit what they can do synonym free. be emancipated Slaves were not emancipated until 1863 in the United States.

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   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.

8. www.collinsdictionary.com › dictionary › englishEMANCIPATE definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary

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   verb. If people are emancipated, they are freed from unpleasant or unfair social, political, or legal restrictions. [formal] Catholics were emancipated in 1792. [be VERB -ed] That war preserved the Union and emancipated enslaved people. [VERB noun] ...the newly emancipated state.