Emancipated
[ɪ'mænsə,petɪd]
Definition
(adj.) free from traditional social restraints; 'an emancipated young woman pursuing her career'; 'a liberated lifestyle' .
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Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Emancipate
Typist: Willard
Examples
- 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.
Typist: Willard