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How to use emancipate in a sentence

17 example sentences · verb, adjective

Emancipate means to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another; to liberate. Example: “Education can emancipate us from error or prejudices.”

Examples of emancipate by meaning

verbTo cause (a place) to be free from the colonization or rule of another entity.

  • to emancipate a colony

verbOften followed by from: chiefly with reference to slavery in the United States, and in Central and South America: to...

  • to pass a law emancipating slaves

verbTo release (a minor) from the legal authority and custody which a parent or guardian has over them; also (Ancient Rome...

  • The child was emancipated from her parents
  • Enlistment for active duty with a branch of the armed forces emancipates a minor.1981, Paula Downey [et al.], “Removing the Disabilities of Minority: About Emancipation, Partial or Complete”, in The Legal Status of...
  • When I was fourteen, I was emancipated by the courts.2015, Drew Barrymore, “My Beautiful Laundrette”, in Wildflower, New York, N.Y.: Dutton, →ISBN, page 31

verbOften followed by from: to free (oneself or someone, or something) from some constraint or controlling influence...

  • Education can emancipate us from error or prejudices.

verbTo become free from the oppression or restraint of another.

  • They already dimly perceive that the paths of peace winding between honest toil and dignified manhood call for the guidance of skilled thinkers, the loving, reverent comradeship between the black lowly and the black men emancipated by training and culture.1903 April 18, W[illiam] E[dward] Burghardt Du Bois, “Of the Training of Black Men”, in The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches...

More sentences with emancipate

  • We're left to our own devices, you and I, emancipated and gateless.2013, Steve Erickson, Tours of the Black Clock: A Novel, →ISBN. From the entry gateless
  • Different from both, Dusyanta seems to espouse what may be termed as emancipated evocationism.1991, Girdhari Lal Chaturvedi, Re-visiting Śākuntalam, page 113. From the entry evocationism
  • But the grand passion of emancipated youth is not Woman - it is Beer.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 19. From the entry grand passion
  • Lo and behold, at seven forty, another strapping male was emancipated, about as easily as pouring water out of a boot.2006, Mike Gaddis, Zip Zap. From the entry looksome
  • An emancipated slave must be provisioned by the master.2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 85. From the entry provision
  • It was not as if I had knocked about a lot on my own, and was thoroughly emancipated and “independent”.1931, Gladys Cooper, Gladys Cooper, Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., page 62. From the entry Edwardianly
  • Although their courtship had been short-timed the way of the Lord had fortunately endowed him with the integrity of this emancipated female partner.2000, Patrick R. Penland, Narcissus Spurned: Lest the Pool Stir, Unnoticed, page 9. From the entry short-time
  • One necessary fashion item for the dutiful sans-culotte, for example, was the red cap (bonnet rouge), which was alleged to recall the cap worn in Antiquity by emancipated slaves.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 454. From the entry sans-culotte
  • Accordingly, when one awakens to Śūnyatā in everything one is emancipated from the substantialization of and attachment to everything and realizes the independent relationality of everything including oneself.1995, Masao Abe, Steven Heine, Buddhism and interfaith dialogue, →ISBN, page 54. From the entry Śūnyatā
  • By the eighteenth century chemists had in great measure emancipated themselves from the mysticism and astrologism of the ancients, and suggestions for symbols of a more specific type were made.1923, Hospital Corps Quarterly, page 53. From the entry astrologism

Meaning of emancipate

  1. verb To set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another; to liberate.
  2. verb To cause (a place) to be free from the colonization or rule of another entity.
  3. verb Often followed by from: chiefly with reference to slavery in the United States, and in Central and South America: to set free (oneself or someone) from imprisonment, or from serfdom or slavery.

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Questions about emancipate in a sentence

How do you use emancipate in a sentence?
Emancipate is used as a verb and adjective. For example: “Education can emancipate us from error or prejudices.”
What is a short sentence with emancipate?
“to emancipate a colony”
What does emancipate mean?
Emancipate means to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another; to liberate.

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