(v. t.) To set free from the power of another; to liberate; as: (a) To set free, as a minor from a parent; as, a father may emancipate a child. (b) To set free from bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit; as, to emancipate a slave, or a country.
(v. t.) To free from any controlling influence, especially from anything which exerts undue or evil influence; as, to emancipate one from prejudices or error.
(a.) Set at liberty.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the course of their existence, they came to redefine the issue of pedophilia as one of youth emancipation.
(2) The Great war was also a turning point in the history of female emancipation.
(3) The emancipation of children, the anxieties sometimes caused by the age of the parents, the lack of interest which society has in the 50 years old woman, but which it very readily takes in the old woman, conjugal lassitude, the lack of comprehension of those around her, very often bring such women to the doctor, who should know not only how to palliate the oestrogen deficiency, and the organic disorders, but also show evidence of a certain psychological understanding.
(4) And yet here I am today, a sober, emancipated, successful and happy woman.
(5) St Vincent's population history, first as a slave society, then, after Emancipation, as a migration-oriented society, has strongly influenced cultural attitudes towards sexuality and fertility.
(6) In 1963, almost 200 years after those words were set to paper, a full century after a great war was fought and emancipation proclaimed, that promise -- those truths -- remained unmet.
(7) Relations with the former secretary of state soured over budget issues and the Ofsted chief’s reluctance to share the ideological frenzy in Mr Gove’s entourage that treated the emancipation of schools from local authority control as an end in itself.
(8) After failing to get elected in 2005, she was made a peer in 2007, and became a Tory role model for emancipated modern Muslim womanhood.
(9) Three years later he finally severed his ties with the label, instead forming his own New Power Generation label for the purposes of releasing the triple CD Emancipation .
(10) Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years, Volume One (2003) and Volume Two (2005) The anarchist Emma Goldman was a woman of many causes – free speech, women’s emancipation, birth control and workers’ rights.
(11) The “Brexit” brigade tends to present rupture from Brussels as a clean break; the final step in a long journey of emancipation.
(12) He told me sadly of two youths who had said they did not go to the theatre because: “That’s not for us, it’s for the nobs.” The Labour party and the unions had emancipated the working class economically, but what had they done to show the worker that he ought to take his share of the nation’s cultural life, that everyone was a “nob” in the theatre?
(13) She did not hesitate to treat Hefner's emancipation claims as bunk.
(14) It is tempting to imagine these stories sum up what Iceland is all about: Iceland bailed out the people and jailed the bankers, Icelandic women are the Valkyries of gender equality, marching stealthily toward the goal of total emancipation.
(15) Gradually, I realised that since the 19th century, the labour movement had awakened interest in what earlier generations of workers had done and thought, and campaigns for women’s suffrage had resulted in both chronicles of emancipation and research into the lives of poor women.
(16) There the aristocratic owners, Lord and Lady Mount Temple, assembled an eclectic crowd of Pre-Raphalites, spiritualist mediums and emancipated slaves – thereby confirming to Marx and Engels' surprisingly modern-sounding critique of conservative or bourgeois socialism as "philanthropists, humanitarians, improvers of the condition of the working class, organisers of charity, members of societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals, temperance fanatics, hole-and-corner reformers … desirous of redressing social grievances in order to secure the continued existence of bourgeois society".
(17) He points out also "the phobia of menopause", the increasing fear of old age in a "youth culture", in spite of progress of woman emancipation, social liberation following biological liberation (birth control, decrease of child mortality, etc).
(18) Given this, it's up to Europeans to turn their desire for emancipation from Russian gas into a demand for an accelerated transition to renewables.
(19) There was, of course, that business in the 90s when he went to war with Warner Bros, changing his name to an unpronounceable symbol and marking his eventual exit from the label with a triple CD pointedly titled Emancipation.
(20) Rather they worked within a universalist moral framework that stressed freedom and emancipation for all humanity.
Manumit
Definition:
(v. t.) To release from slavery; to liberate from personal bondage or servitude; to free, as a slave.