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unemancipated

unemancipated adjective: not emancipated.

Adjective

unemancipated (comparative more unemancipated, superlative most unemancipated)

  1. Not emancipated.
    • Outside lay emancipated Berrytown, to unemancipated Kitty only a dumb panorama: inside, her meals, her lessons and perpetual consultations with her mother on bias folds and gussets while they made their dresses or sewed for the Indian missions.1873, Various, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science
    • The first reason is that the unemancipated teacher instinctively does to-day what he did twenty years ago, and that twenty years ago, when children were examined in reading from their own books, the teacher heard them read aloud, day after day in order that he might make sure that they knew their...1912, Edmond Holmes, What Is and What Might Be

Forms of unemancipated

comparativemore unemancipated
superlativemost unemancipated

Origin of unemancipated

From un- + emancipated.

Questions about unemancipated

What does unemancipated mean?
Unemancipated means not emancipated.
What part of speech is unemancipated?
Unemancipated is an adjective.

Words near unemancipated in the dictionary

  1. unelucidating
  2. unelusive
  3. uneluted
  4. unemaciated
  5. unemancipable
  6. unemancipated
  7. unemarginated
  8. unemasculated
  9. unembalmed
  10. unembanked
  11. unembargoed

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