emancipation
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Definition of emancipation
: the act or process of emancipating
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Other Words from emancipation
emancipationist
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Synonyms & Antonyms for emancipation
Synonyms
enfranchisement, freeing, liberation, manumission
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Examples of emancipation in a Sentence
a book discussing the role that the emancipation of slaves played in the nation's history
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Their story as a people is the story of slavery, emancipation, reconstruction, civil rights, and so on. — Nr Staff, National Review, "The Ungrateful among Us," 19 July 2019 That conviction was underlined by 21 Savage, whose set was something of an emancipation party attended by tens of thousands of his closest friends. — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, "Lollapalooza review: A festival with a soul tries to peek out from a massive party," 5 Aug. 2019 Some held onto their former slaves by not telling them about emancipation. — Rodney Brooks, Washington Post, "‘They Were Her Property’: The brutal Southern belles who benefited from American slavery," 2 Aug. 2019 That book was about the suffering and emancipation of enslaved Americans from the middle to the end of the nineteenth century. — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, "Colson Whitehead, American Escape Artist," 30 July 2019 Dred Scott, born into slavery, sought emancipation after living in a free state. — Jeneé Osterheldt, BostonGlobe.com, "Yes, Mr. President, the ‘Squad’ is telling you how government should run. That’s why they were elected," 15 July 2019 The end of the war brought emancipation, but cotton production soon became dominated by sharecropping and tenant farming. — William Thornton | [email protected], al.com, "Cotton, once king in Alabama, still rules on these family farms," 14 July 2019 Their language of emancipation has been adopted more broadly by the American public. — Nr Staff, National Review, "The Ungrateful among Us," 19 July 2019 The second dissects differences between black men’s and women’s experiences of emancipation. — Chandra Manning, Washington Post, "How women impacted the Civil War — and changed the rules of warfare," 11 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'emancipation.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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More Definitions for emancipation
emancipation
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Kids Definition of emancipation
: an act of setting someone free from control or slavery
emancipation
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Medical Definition of emancipation
: gradual separation of an original homogeneous embryo into fields with different specific potentialities for development
emancipation
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Legal Definition of emancipation
: the act or process of emancipating
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