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  • adjective free from traditional social restraints; -- used especially of women.
  • adjective freed from bondage.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of emancipate.

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  • adjective free from traditional social restraints

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Examples

  • She must be in Heaven now, continuously interceding for us, her crusade for a free Filipino, emancipated from the evils of corruption.

    Global Voices in English » Philippines: People mourn death of Corazon Aquino 2009

  • May she at last be frankly fat, emancipated from the frantic remodelings at the hands of corsetière and couturière?

    Stylish Stouts 1969

  • May she at last be frankly fat, emancipated from the frantic remodelings at the hands of corsetière and couturière?

    Stylish Stouts 1919

  • I considered myself absolutely, eternally, delightfully emancipated from the yoke of indefensible superstitions.

    The Promised Land 1912

  • Men only just emancipated from the yoke of slavery felt themselves called to enter the ministry and to preach the gospel to their own people.

    Religious Bodies: 1906 United States. Bureau of the Census. 1906

  • That a being so young, so lovely, and so interesting, just emancipated from the gloom of a convent, unknowing of the world and to the world unknown, should thus have been wrecked on a sea of troubles, and thrown on the mercy of strangers under circumstances so dreadful, so uncontrollable, and not have sunk to rise no more, must be the wonder of every one.

    The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B. 1903

  • One finds at Johnstown now, beautiful churches, ornamented cemeteries, and cheerful men and women, quite emancipated from the nonsense and terrors of the old theologies.

    Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897 1898

  • At an age when girls are generally at school, or indeed scarcely emancipated from the nursery, I was presented in society as a wife – and very nearly as a mother.

    Memoirs of Mary Robinson Mary Elizabeth Robinson 1895

  • Everhard found himself now for the first time for many years entirely emancipated from the strain of a false position: - he had neither to endure clamorous abuse nor the heated atmosphere of his own reputation; he was there amongst his brethren, dwelling as kings amongst each other, in a majestic simplicity of thought and speech.

    Zoe: The History of Two Lives 1845

  • In the course of natural development, Cecily, whilst still a girl, threw for ever behind her all superstitions and harassing doubts; she was in the true sense "emancipated" -- a word Edward Spence was accustomed to use jestingly.

    The Emancipated George Gissing 1880

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