Emancipation Meaning
/ɪˌmæn.səˈpeɪ.ʃən/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe act of setting free from the power of another, as from slavery, subjection, dependence, or controlling influence.
nounThe 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).
Sentence Examples
She fought for the emancipation of women.
The islands' sugar industry was hurt by the emancipation of the slaves in 1834.
They are people who will quest for emancipation.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The proclamation declared the ____ of all slaves in the territory.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ of the people led to a new era of freedom.
Word Origin & History
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.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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 26], 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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CEFR Practice Quiz
The proclamation declared the ____ of all slaves in the territory.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ of the people led to a new era of freedom.