Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective permitting or conducive to the reduction of restraints on behavior.
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- verb Present participle of
emancipate .
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Examples
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He was more interested in emancipating the dispossessed than in celebrating the body or floating the signifier.
Literary Study 2009
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Carlyle is gratified (as he could not but be) with your "kindest regards" intercalated so mindfully into your wishes for my success in emancipating myself.
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I do not enumerate his amazing successes in guiding the ship of state through as heavy a storm as ever beat and blew; in leading us to conclusions of the most wonderful character, as official commander-in chief of the power of the nation; in emancipating from the fetters of slavery an entire race of human beings.
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Congress, by a vote of 77 against 33, has given leave to report a bill appropriating 20,000,000 dols. to Missouri to aid her in emancipating her slaves.
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But the timing of it for me was kind of emancipating in that I'd just finished promoting
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Third, they demand the right to a free, empowering, and "emancipating" education that emphasizes the importance of social movements, dissent, and combating forms of oppression personally and structurally.
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Imagining a Germany in the middle of the road - International Herald Tribune BERLIN: Could you get elected German chancellor Sept. 27 next year if your opponents say your goals are "emancipating" Germany and Europe from the United States, and setting a policy course for a Europe "equidistant" between Russia and the Americans?
European Tribune 2008
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And being the Schroeder man that he is, it is only a matter of time before Steinmeier must begin the rhetoric about "emancipating" Germany and Europe from the United States and begin playing with the division between the pro - and anti-American factions in Europe, always a big vote-getter in Germany.
Blogger News Network 2008
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'emancipating' them from the worshipful impulse, scientific 'explanations' instead serve to
unknown title 2008
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'emancipating' them from the worshipful impulse, scientific 'explanations' instead serve to
unknown title 2008
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