Liberation
[lɪbə'reɪʃ(ə)n] or [,lɪbə'reʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the act of liberating someone or something.
(noun.) the attempt to achieve equal rights or status; 'she worked for women's liberation'.
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Definition
(n.) The act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Deliverance, discharge, release.
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Examples
- But, then, to come back to this point,--we were on this liberation business. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Perhaps the Modern Period with its flexibility, sense of change, and desire for self-direction is a liberation due to the great surplus of wealth. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- By experiment it has been found that the addition to the bleaching solution of an acid, such as vinegar or lemon juice or sulphuric acid, causes the liberation of the chlorine. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- A horrible despair, and at the same time a sense of release, liberation, came over Hermione. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Mr Pancks was the third, and carried his hat under his arm for the liberation of his restive hair; the weather being extremely hot. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The future liberation of the public revenue they leave to the care of posterity. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- This was no liberation, only a new tyranny, a heavy and inglorious tyranny instead of an active and splendid one. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- By this means the gas is freed from the fumes of sulphuric acid vapour, and from the fine particles of chalk that become mingled with it during its sudden liberation. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- One in 1849 came to demand the liberation of eighteen shipwrecked American sailors. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- After the war of liberation (circa 1600 B.C.) there followed a period of great prosperity in Egypt, _the New Empire_. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The energies of man were before directed to the destruction of his species: they now aim at its liberation and preservation. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He pulled off his cap, in a movement of dream-liberation, and went across to her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Prussia rose, and the German War of Liberation began. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The disc, when completed, is then rinsed off and etched with acid, chromic acid being used, to prevent liberation of hydrogen bubbles. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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