emancipation
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4ADJ.
ethnolinguistic, immediate
VERB + EMANCIPATION
demand, fought, hurt, issuing, strengthening
EMANCIPATION + NOUN
day, proclamation, slaves, women
PREP.
after, in, since
Definitions
noun
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!
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[.]
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.
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6Ireland, 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
WiktionaryAs 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
WiktionaryUS President Abraham Lincoln was called the Great Emancipator after issuing the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.
WiktionaryShe fought for the emancipation of women.
Tatoeba · #2638393The islands' sugar industry was hurt by the emancipation of the slaves in 1834.
Tatoeba · #8905224The emancipation of the working class is the work of the working class itself.
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