Emancipate
[ɪ'mænsɪpeɪt] or [ɪ'mænsɪpet]
Definition
(v. t.) To set free from the power of another; to liberate; as: (a) To set free, as a minor from a parent; as, a father may emancipate a child. (b) To set free from bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit; as, to emancipate a slave, or a country.
(v. t.) To free from any controlling influence, especially from anything which exerts undue or evil influence; as, to emancipate one from prejudices or error.
(a.) Set at liberty.
Typist: Louis
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Enfranchise, manumit, liberate, disenthrall, release, unfetter, unshackle, unchain, free, set free, set at liberty.
Editor: Orville
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Liberate, enfranchise, rescue
ANT:Enthrall, subjugate, enslave, bind, disqualify
Checker: Truman
Definition
v.t. to set free from servitude: to free from restraint or bondage of any kind.—ns. Emancipā′tion the act of setting free from bondage or disability of any kind: the state of being set free; Emancipā′tionist an advocate of the emancipation of slaves; Eman′cipator; Eman′cipist a convict who has served his time of punishment in a penal colony.
Inputed by Celia
Examples
- But, suppose we should rise up tomorrow and emancipate, who would educate these millions, and teach them how to use their freedom? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- If we emancipate, are you willing to educate? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Do you suppose it possible that a nation ever will voluntarily emancipate? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Yes, but they are a minority; and, if we should begin to emancipate to any extent, we should soon hear from you. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The first step in freeing men from external chains was to emancipate them from the internal chains of false beliefs and ideals. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He pictured the town emancipated from its ugliness and its cruelty--a beautiful city for free men and women. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Through the greater part of Europe, they were gradually emancipated. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The first desire of the emancipated slave, generally, is for _education_. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- But they demanded that the emancipated slaves should leave the state within a year or be outlawed! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The emancipated individual was to become the organ and agent of a comprehensive and progressive society. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- That Plato should have emancipated himself from the ideas of his own country and from the example of the East, shows a wonderful independence of mind. Plato. The Republic.
- We are only partially emancipated from the mechanical and merely logical tradition of the Eighteenth Century. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The young men nowadays were emancipating themselves from the law and business and taking up all sorts of new things. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Now, I'm principled against emancipating, in any case. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- There was in Virginia a strong party in favour of emancipating slaves. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Nola