emancipation en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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- /ɪˌmæn.səˈpeɪ.ʃən/
Etymology
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.
Meanings
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(uncountable, usually) 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 14], 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 University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 147:
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(uncountable, usually) 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.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| emancipations | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
emancipation waist · Emancipation Day · ewomancipation · emancipationist · postemancipation · nonemancipation
Relateds
emancipator · emancipatoric · emancipate · emancipatrix
Synonyms
manumission (setting free from slavery)
Translations (51)
snk maxawasande (act of setting free from the power of another) · ka განთავისუფლება (act of setting free from the power of another) · uk емансипа́ція (act of setting free from the power of another) · pt emancipação (act of setting free from the power of another) · da frigørelser (act of setting free from the power of another) · ro emancipare (act of setting free from the power of another) · he אמנציפציה (act of setting free from the power of another) · fi vapauttaminen (act of setting free from the power of another) · es manumisión (act of setting free from the power of another) · mk еманципација (act of setting free from the power of another) · es emancipación (act of setting free from the power of another) · cmn 解放 (act of setting free from the power of another) · yi עמאַנציפּאַציע (act of setting free from the power of another) · pl wyzwolenie (act of setting free from the power of another) · fr émancipation (act of setting free from the power of another) · ga fuascailt (act of setting free from the power of another) · kk эмансипация (act of setting free from the power of another) · bg еманципа́ция (act of setting free from the power of another) · de Emanzipation (act of setting free from the power of another) · hu felszabadítás (act of setting free from the power of another) · cs emancipace (act of setting free from the power of another) · ka ემანსიპაცია (act of setting free from the power of another) · lv atbrīvošana (act of setting free from the power of another) · el χειραφέτηση (act of setting free from the power of another) · de Freilassung (act of setting free from the power of another) · eo emancipiĝo (act of setting free from the power of another) · be эмансіпа́цыя (act of setting free from the power of another) · sq emancipim (act of setting free from the power of another) · sv emancipation (act of setting free from the power of another) · gl emancipación (act of setting free from the power of another) · sv frigörelse (act of setting free from the power of another) · lv emancipācija (act of setting free from the power of another) · ja 解放 (act of setting free from the power of another) · fi vapautus (act of setting free from the power of another) · sa मोक्ष (act of setting free from the power of another) · ckb ڕزگاری (act of setting free from the power of another) · uk зві́льнення (act of setting free from the power of another) · cs osvobození (act of setting free from the power of another) · ca emancipació (act of setting free from the power of another) · km ការអោយរួចជាអ្នកជា (act of setting free from the power of another) · cy rhyddfreiniad (act of setting free from the power of another) · hu emancipáció (act of setting free from the power of another) · nl emancipatie (act of setting free from the power of another) · pl emancypacja (act of setting free from the power of another) · be вызвале́нне (act of setting free from the power of another) · da frigørelse (act of setting free from the power of another) · nl ontvoogding (act of setting free from the power of another) · srn manspasi (act of setting free from the power of another) · ru эмансипа́ция (act of setting free from the power of another) · mk ослободување (act of setting free from the power of another) · ru освобожде́ние (act of setting free from the power of another)