Emancipation

Word EMANCIPATION
Character 12
Hyphenation e man ci pa tion
Pronunciations /ɨˈmænsɨˌpeɪʃnˌ/

Definitions and meanings of "Emancipation"

What do we mean by emancipation?

The act or an instance of emancipating. noun

The condition of being emancipated. noun

The act of setting free from bondage, servitude, or slavery, or from dependence, civil restraints or disabilities, etc.; deliverance from controlling influence or subjection; liberation: as, the emancipation of slaves; emancipation from prejudices, or from burdensome legal disqualifications; the emancipation of Catholics by the act of Parliament passed in 1829. noun

The freeing of a minor from parental control. noun

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; the act or process of emancipation, or the state thereby achieved; liberation noun

The act of setting free from the power of another, from slavery, subjection, dependence, or controlling influence noun

The state of being thus set free; liberation; used of slaves, minors, of a person from prejudices, of the mind from superstition, of a nation from tyranny or subjection. noun

Freeing someone from the control of another; especially a parent's relinquishing authority and control over a minor child noun

The act of setting free from the power of another, as from slavery, subjection, dependence, or controlling influence.

The state of being thus set free; liberation (used, for example, of slaves from bondage, of a person from prejudices, of the mind from superstition, of a nation from tyranny or subjugation).

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The word "emancipation" in example sentences

Both men were equally against slavery: Lundy for gradual emancipation and _colonization_; but Garrison for _immediate and unconditional emancipation_. ❋ George Washington Williams (N/A)

The term emancipation is also applied to the release of a secular ecclesiastic from his diocese, or of a regular from obedience and submission to his former superior, because of election to the episcopate. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

It is not customary to use the term emancipation for that form of dismissal by which a church is released from parochial jurisdiction, a bishop from subordination to his metropolitan, a monastery or order from the jurisdiction of the bishop, for the purpose of placing such person or body under the ecclesiastical authority next higher in rank, or under the pope himself. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

In this process, which we call emancipation, she has in a sense lost sight of the purposes of emancipation. ❋ Ida M. Tarbell (1900)

Having thus "prepared the question of suffrage," he says: -- "Many persons who mistook their ground in opposing the abolition of slavery, are naturally shy of being caught again and are half ready to leap into the gulf of what they call the emancipation of woman before they can distinctly see the bottom of it." ❋ Unknown (1869)

Biko spoke of liberation as both an act of claiming land and legal rights but also an act of psychological emancipation from the chains of the mind where by people internalized the prejudices of the oppressor and then oppresses others the way they have been oppressed. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A tart whistle awaited its emancipation from the muddy fortress by way of a cavity she fashioned. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Civil War, with its swashbuckling heroes, its staggering toll, and its consequence of emancipation, is the culmination of an unorthodox intellectual journey. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For example, this sarcastic report: Negro emancipation is another grand reform! ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2009)

Mr. Jefferson did not mean to say, nor do I, that the power of emancipation is in the Federal Government. ❋ Unknown (2010)

At the height of the Cold War, the Soviets supported Cuba but it's debatable whether Russia ever took Latin American emancipation very seriously. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The mystic in Kafka knew that dialectics promises emancipation from the separative prison of dualism. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Kafka's mystical sensibility occurred during 1917-18 when, in the flush of his emancipation from the insurance agency, he was able to bring an intense intellectual focus to the task of recording his paradoxical spiritual insights in aphoristic form in some eight octavo notebooks. ❋ Unknown (2007)

On her next birthday she will face a legal milestone called emancipation -- the end of state support. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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