emancipation
noun/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.
1
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 23], 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:
2
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.
- Synonyms
- manumission
- Derived terms
- Emancipation Day, emancipationist, emancipation waist, nonemancipation, postemancipation
- Related terms
- emancipate, emancipator, emancipatoric, emancipatrix