Emancipate
verb
To set free from a situation, contract, or rules.
Many slaves were emancipated during the civil war.
Often appears as...
- emancipate from slavery
- emancipate from bondage
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Historical
verb
To set someone free from social or political restrictions.
Feminists are working to emancipate women.
Often appears as...
- emancipate women
- emancipate the oppressed
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Political
verb
To free someone from someone else's control or power.
The child was emancipated from his parents' control at the age of 18.
Often appears as...
- emancipate a minor
- emancipate from parental control
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Formal
Legal
verb
To set free from a situation, contract, or rules.
Many slaves were emancipated during the civil war.
Often appears as...
- emancipate from slavery
- emancipate from bondage
Usage tips
Historical
verb
To set someone free from social or political restrictions.
Feminists are working to emancipate women.
Often appears as...
- emancipate women
- emancipate the oppressed
Usage tips
Political
verb
To free someone from someone else's control or power.
The child was emancipated from his parents' control at the age of 18.
Often appears as...
- emancipate a minor
- emancipate from parental control
Usage tips
Formal
Legal
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Pro Tip 1/2Historical Significance
Understand 'emancipate' often relates to significant historical events and movements for freedom.
'Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation aimed to emancipate Southern slaves.'
Pro Tip 2/2Metaphoric Use
'Emancipate' can be used metaphorically to describe freeing from non-physical restraints like habits.
'Self-help books claim to emancipate individuals from their fears.'
Pro Tip 1/2Historical Significance
Understand 'emancipate' often relates to significant historical events and movements for freedom.
'Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation aimed to emancipate Southern slaves.'
Pro Tip 2/2Metaphoric Use
'Emancipate' can be used metaphorically to describe freeing from non-physical restraints like habits.
'Self-help books claim to emancipate individuals from their fears.'
Pro Tip 1/2Historical Significance
Understand 'emancipate' often relates to significant historical events and movements for freedom.
'Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation aimed to emancipate Southern slaves.'
Pro Tip 2/2Metaphoric Use
'Emancipate' can be used metaphorically to describe freeing from non-physical restraints like habits.
'Self-help books claim to emancipate individuals from their fears.'
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The electrifying...
the emancipation act was gradual. Those who were currently enslaved were forced to serve a period of indentured servitude until their mid-20s. Throughout this period, enslavers repeatedly sold Baumfree, tearing her from her loved ones. Often, she was explicitly prevented from pursuing new relationships.
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Why the universe seems...
of our brain's evolutionary apprenticeship in Middle World? Could we, by training and practice, emancipate ourselves from Middle World and achieve some sort of intuitive as well as mathematical understanding of the very small and the very large? I genuinely don't know the answer.
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Why invest in the...
economy can put positive values into society and can help to shape society in that way an example comes from my work my novel nervous conditions written many years ago is a novel about women's emancipation I so get invited to read or
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The Emancipation...
he needs the manpower black soldiers can provide but risks losing the white soldiers if he frees the slaves so he's careful not to reveal his intentions while he's publicly denying that he has any intention of moving on emancipation
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Why did Phillis Wheatley...
some believe she bargained to make emancipation a condition of her return. It’s difficult to know exactly what happened, both here and throughout the rest of Wheatley’s life. Her proposal for a second book was never published.
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My Daughter, Malala PIPE...
I tried to inculcate in her personality. And this was not only she, only Malala. I imparted all these good values to my school, girl students and boy students as well. I used education for emancipation. I taught my girls,
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There's no such thing as...
began to exercise their power, they celebrated in jubilee parades that connected emancipation with their newfound right to vote. A few decades later, the suffragettes brought a spirit of theatricality to their fight,
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Safari Live - Day 133 PIPE...
life apparently years very emancipated so he's not well and he was trying to follow the in comas this morning to try see if he could get an easy meal so I don't know if it's a line we've
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A letter to all who have...
that the open, liquid world I relished, of people and goods and technologies flowing freely, going where they pleased, globally, was not, for you, an emancipation.
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Lincoln's Proclamation PIPE...
and my whole soul is in it the Emancipation Proclamation in which he delivers a death blow to slavery becomes the most important document of the Civil
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The electrifying...
the emancipation act was gradual. Those who were currently enslaved were forced to serve a period of indentured servitude until their mid-20s. Throughout this period, enslavers repeatedly sold Baumfree, tearing her from her loved ones. Often, she was explicitly prevented from pursuing new relationships.
Video examples
Why the universe seems...
of our brain's evolutionary apprenticeship in Middle World? Could we, by training and practice, emancipate ourselves from Middle World and achieve some sort of intuitive as well as mathematical understanding of the very small and the very large? I genuinely don't know the answer.
Video examples
Why invest in the...
economy can put positive values into society and can help to shape society in that way an example comes from my work my novel nervous conditions written many years ago is a novel about women's emancipation I so get invited to read or
Video examples
The Emancipation...
he needs the manpower black soldiers can provide but risks losing the white soldiers if he frees the slaves so he's careful not to reveal his intentions while he's publicly denying that he has any intention of moving on emancipation
Video examples
Why did Phillis Wheatley...
some believe she bargained to make emancipation a condition of her return. It’s difficult to know exactly what happened, both here and throughout the rest of Wheatley’s life. Her proposal for a second book was never published.
Video examples
My Daughter, Malala PIPE...
I tried to inculcate in her personality. And this was not only she, only Malala. I imparted all these good values to my school, girl students and boy students as well. I used education for emancipation. I taught my girls,
Video examples
There's no such thing as...
began to exercise their power, they celebrated in jubilee parades that connected emancipation with their newfound right to vote. A few decades later, the suffragettes brought a spirit of theatricality to their fight,
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 133 PIPE...
life apparently years very emancipated so he's not well and he was trying to follow the in comas this morning to try see if he could get an easy meal so I don't know if it's a line we've
Video examples
A letter to all who have...
that the open, liquid world I relished, of people and goods and technologies flowing freely, going where they pleased, globally, was not, for you, an emancipation.
Video examples
Lincoln's Proclamation PIPE...
and my whole soul is in it the Emancipation Proclamation in which he delivers a death blow to slavery becomes the most important document of the Civil
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Drew Barrymore
American Actress
Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.
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Susan Vreeland
American Author
Susan B. Anthony said that the bicycle did more to emancipate women than any other single thing. The bicycle was linked in the psyches of women at that time as a symbol of practical emancipation. Women could go places, wear their skirts shorter to manage the bicycle, and be independent.
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Salvador Dali
Spanish Artist
Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
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Virginia Woolf
British Author
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
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I. F. Stone
American Journalist
Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.
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Princess Stephanie of Monaco
Monacan Royalty
The fight against AIDS and the fight for the emancipation of women go hand-in-hand.
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Marcus Garvey
Jamaican Publisher
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!
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Rabindranath Tagore
Indian Poet
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
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Herbert Hoover
American President
True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.
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Theodor W. Adorno
German Philosopher
No emancipation without that of society.
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Drew Barrymore
American Actress
Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.
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Susan Vreeland
American Author
Susan B. Anthony said that the bicycle did more to emancipate women than any other single thing. The bicycle was linked in the psyches of women at that time as a symbol of practical emancipation. Women could go places, wear their skirts shorter to manage the bicycle, and be independent.
Quote examples
Salvador Dali
Spanish Artist
Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
Quote examples
Virginia Woolf
British Author
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
Quote examples
I. F. Stone
American Journalist
Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.
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Princess Stephanie of Monaco
Monacan Royalty
The fight against AIDS and the fight for the emancipation of women go hand-in-hand.
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Marcus Garvey
Jamaican Publisher
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!
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Rabindranath Tagore
Indian Poet
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
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Herbert Hoover
American President
True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.
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Theodor W. Adorno
German Philosopher
No emancipation without that of society.
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