Emancipation
[ɪ,mænsɪ'peɪʃ(ə)n] or [ɪ,mænsə'peʃən]
Definition
(noun.) freeing someone from the control of another; especially a parent's relinquishing authority and control over a minor child.
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Definition
(n.) The act of setting free from the power of another, from slavery, subjection, dependence, or controlling influence; also, the state of being thus set free; liberation; as, the emancipation of slaves; the emancipation of minors; the emancipation of a person from prejudices; the emancipation of the mind from superstition; the emancipation of a nation from tyranny or subjection.
Editor: Rae
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Enfranchisement, manumission, liberation, release, deliverance.
Checker: Neil
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A bondman's change from the tyranny of another to the despotism of himself.
Checked by Cecily
Examples
- I want to take up Wilberforce's and Romilly's line, you know, and work at Negro Emancipation, Criminal Law--that kind of thing. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The Greeks alone argued whether it was right to have them--and 'cranks' occasionally proposed emancipation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This is a great emancipation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Doubtless the scheme may have been used, in unjustifiable ways, as a means of retarding our emancipation. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It is better to have said one word for the emancipation of the race than to have written the greatest novel of the times. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The process of negro emancipation is infinitely slower and it is not accomplished yet. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The great-grandfather was the first freeman of Pasteur's forbears, having purchased with money his emancipation from serfdom. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Lately, the internal combustion engine, together with its application in the kerosene tractor, promises to make the farmer’s emancipation practically complete. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- With Carthoris at my side I fought for the red men of Barsoom and for their total emancipation from the throttling bondage of a hideous superstition. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- They are likely to regard the Emancipation Proclamation as the end of chattel slavery. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Many educated and, otherwise, sensible persons appeared to believe that emancipation meant social equality. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The emancipation of the slaves might teach us the lesson that an explosion followed by reconstruction is satisfactory to nobody. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But he has the same sort of enthusiasm for liberty, freedom, emancipation--a fine thing under guidance--under guidance, you know. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The power of emancipation is in the social movements which alone can effect any deep reform in a nation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Typist: Manfred