EMANCIPATE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of emancipate in English

Examples from literature
  • But she considered herself to be emancipated from control. 
  • It neither made him to be humane to his slaves, nor to emancipate them. 
  • Produce a bill to emancipate the slaves in the District of Columbia, or, if you prefer it, to emancipate those born hereafter. 
  • She and her husband distinguished themselves several years ago, in Jamaica, by immediately emancipating their slaves. 
  • The strength of the council lay not in itself but in the circumstances that had quickened its intelligence, dispelled its vanities, and emancipated it from traditional ambitions and antagonisms. 
(Definition of emancipate from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of emancipate from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of emancipate

emancipate
Together they emancipated the art of experiment from being a mere craft activity and endowed it with the status of a science.
This left co-operative structures fragile, new social agents without resources, and the state's earlier commitment to emancipate the indigenous peasantry barely begun.
Every important turn in human history has always been accompanied by a movement of emancipating the mind.
Perhaps, then, a nonrepresentational vision would be one that would emancipate us from space-time.
This fact again invites reflection on the possibility of bringing these programmes closer to groups of people most in need of liberating or emancipating interventions.
The argument asks that the desire for unified or emancipated futures be exposed as based in fictions of the past.
This indicates that the profane world had emancipated itself from the biblical and classical codes that dominated painting until then.
Eventually physical chemistry was loosened from chemistry in the same way that, somewhat later, chemical physics was emancipated from physics.
When dissonant layers behave much like metrical layers, they can be considered structural, emancipating metrical dissonance from its need to resolve.
Once ritualized, this gesture is already emancipated from its functionality.
Is lex mercatoria, for example, actually emancipated from politics - or is it precisely political by pretending not to be so?
The second-order performance emancipates itself from its assumed reproductive function as an independent aesthetic artefact.
We believe that it is beneficial to emancipate musicians from the dominant 'piano metaphor' that, while ubiquitous in synthesis, is an impoverished and limiting constraint.
The objectives of these programmes should be emancipating and liberating, and their mode of delivery should be especially participative.
It has been taught to be critical, creative, enthusiastic and emancipated, only to become aware of the hard reality after their graduation.
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Translations of emancipate

in Chinese (Traditional)
解放, 給予人們政治或社會自由權利…
in Chinese (Simplified)
解放, 给予人们政治或社会自由权利…
in Spanish
emancipar…
in Portuguese
emancipar…
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sosyal, yasal ve siyasî denetimleri kaldırarak daha fazla özgürlük/hak tanımak, özgürlük vermek…
émanciper, affranchir…
emanciperen…
osvobodit…
frigøre, frigive…
membebaskan…
เป็นอิสระ…
giải phóng…
wyzwalać, emancypować, dawać równouprawnienie…
frigöra, emancipera…
membebaskan…
befreien…
frigjøre, emansipere, frigi…
емансипувати, розкріпачувати…
освобождать, эмансипировать…
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