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emancipated

[ ih-man-suh-pey-tid ]

adjective

  1. not constrained or restricted by custom, tradition, superstition, etc.:

    a modern, emancipated woman.

  2. freed, as from slavery or bondage.


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Other Words From

  • une·manci·pated adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of emancipated1

First recorded in 1720–30; emancipate + -ed 2

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Example Sentences

The post Juneteenth celebrates just one of the United States’ 20 emancipation days – and the history of how emancipated people were kept unfree needs to be remembered, too appeared first on .

My foundation is ending the year with a renewed focus on our mission to give our emancipated foster youth a brighter future.

The two girls were legally emancipated and returned to the Covington household.

My birth certificate was modified, I changed my name, and when I was sixteen I emancipated from my grandparents and my father.

Rogue female knights and emancipated Wildlings are approaching the center of the story.

Britain set the precedent when, in 1838, they emancipated all its 800,000 Caribbean slaves.

Courtney Love, on the other hand, emancipated herself at age 16, long before she gained fame as a rock star and actress.

I am quite sure that were I young in these emancipated times I should take full advantage of them.

Above all, he must have emancipated himself, although in a friendly way, from the influence of Nicholas Rubinstein.

He was somewhat inclined to sybaritism; not quite emancipated from the tendencies of his bourgeois youth.

Man at last is emancipated and is now beginning to take his place side by side with woman.

Reason had been more completely emancipated at the Reformation than it was at first at all aware of.

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