emancipation
/ɪˌmæn.səˈpeɪ.ʃən/
emancipation noun: the act of setting free from the power of another, as from slavery, subjection, dependence, or controlling influence.
Noun
emancipation (usually uncountable, plural emancipations)
- The act of setting free from the power of another, as from slavery, subjection, dependence, or controlling influence.
- Ireland, last year, was to be paradise, if that Peri, emancipation, was but sent there; now it is a wretched, degraded, oppressed country, unless the Union be dissolved! What ever will it be the year after? So much for any certainty of right in this world!1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 308
- As a result of the strengthening of ethnolinguistic emancipation since the second half of the twentieth century, North Saami now enjoys probably stronger legal and institutional support than any other “minor” Uralic language[.]2022 June 24 [2022 March], Luobbal Sámmol Sámmol Ánte, Jussi Ylikoski, “North Saami”, in Marianne Bakró-Nagy, Johanna Laakso, Elena Skribnik, editors, The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages, Oxford...
- Synonyms:
- manumission
- 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).
- US President Abraham Lincoln was called the Great Emancipator after issuing the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.
emancipation meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam
emancipation in Hindi
- emancipation, liberation
- विमोचन vimocan
emancipation in Tamil
- அடிமைத்தனம் முதலியவற்றிலிருந்து விடுதலை, மீட்பு
emancipation in Urdu
- emancipation, freedom, liberty
- حریت hurriyat
emancipation in Malayalam
- വിടുതൽ
More languagesFewer languages
- emancipation in Kannada
- ಮೋಕ್ಷ mōkṣa
- emancipation in Odia
- ବିସର୍ଗ bisarga
- emancipation in Sanskrit
- मोक्ष mokṣa
Examples of emancipation in a sentence
- When the mind is unaware of its enslavement, emancipation is impossible.
- Rather than encouraging his countrymen to liberate their slaves, he opposed both private manumission and public emancipation.
- Meanwhile movements for freedom, emancipation, liberation, human rights and democracy have a common idea at their heart.
Synonyms of emancipation
Forms of emancipation
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Origin of emancipation
1630, from French émancipation, from Latin ēmancipātiō. In the US, with reference to anti-slavery, abolitionism, first used in 1785 by Charles Godfrey Leland. In Britain, with reference to easing of restrictions on Catholics, in 19th century.
Words formed from emancipation
Phrases with emancipation
Words that rhyme with emancipation
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- vindication
- accumulation
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- appropriation
Questions about emancipation
- What does emancipation mean?
- Emancipation means the act of setting free from the power of another, as from slavery, subjection, dependence, or controlling influence.
- What is emancipation in Hindi?
- Emancipation in Hindi is विमोचन (vimocan). See Emancipation meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is emancipation?
- Emancipation is a noun.
- How do you pronounce emancipation?
- Emancipation is pronounced /ɪˌmæn.səˈpeɪ.ʃən/.
- What is the plural of emancipation?
- The plural of emancipation is emancipations.
Words near emancipation in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: emancipation (page history and authors); विमोचन (Hindi) (page history and authors); emancipation (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); حریت (Urdu) (page history and authors); emancipation (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ಮೋಕ್ಷ (Kannada) (page history and authors); ବିସର୍ଗ (Odia) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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