emancipate
to set people free from social or political restrictions
TRANSLATION
emancipate = befreien, freilassen, sich emanzipieren --- GOOGLE INDEX emancipate: approximately 2,000,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
After failing to get elected in 2005, Warsi was made a peer in 2007, and became a Tory role model for EMANCIPATED modern Muslim womanhood.
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EMANCIPATE yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!
(Reggae legend Bob Marley)
(BBC News)
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EMANCIPATE yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!
(Reggae legend Bob Marley)
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emancipate
verb
- set free, especially from legal, social, or political restrictions
emancipation
noun
(Oxford English Dictionaries)
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Emancipation describes an effort to acquire political rights or equality, often for a specific group. The term stems from the Latin ēx manus capere — take out the hand. Under Roman law, the term referred to the freeing of a son or daughter from parental control to make his or her own way in the world.
Karl Marx discussed political emancipation in his 1844 essay "On the Jewish Question". One writer described Marx's views of political emancipation as "equal status of individual citizens in relation to the state, equality before the law, regardless of religion, property, or other private characteristics of individual people."
While political emancipation as a phrase is less common in modern usage, similar concepts may be referred to by other terms. For instance, the United States civil rights movement, which culminated in the Voting Rights Act of 1965, is essentially an extension of the Emancipation Proclamation and abolition of slavery initiated by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in the 19th century. In the current and former British West Indies islands, the holiday Emancipation Day is celebrated to mark the end of the Atlantic slave trade.
Women's rights is another example of an emancipation effort. It began in earnest at the end of the 19th century in the form of the so-called suffrage (voting rights) movement and gained more attention during the 1970s in western countries with calls for laws barring discrimination in the workplace and demands for equal pay among other issues.
(source: Wikipedia)
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SYNONYMS
enfranchise, liberate, set free, unchain, unfetter
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"After 14 hours it's time to emancipate ourselves from work and get some sleep."
verb
- set free, especially from legal, social, or political restrictions
emancipation
noun
(Oxford English Dictionaries)
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Emancipation describes an effort to acquire political rights or equality, often for a specific group. The term stems from the Latin ēx manus capere — take out the hand. Under Roman law, the term referred to the freeing of a son or daughter from parental control to make his or her own way in the world.
Karl Marx discussed political emancipation in his 1844 essay "On the Jewish Question". One writer described Marx's views of political emancipation as "equal status of individual citizens in relation to the state, equality before the law, regardless of religion, property, or other private characteristics of individual people."
While political emancipation as a phrase is less common in modern usage, similar concepts may be referred to by other terms. For instance, the United States civil rights movement, which culminated in the Voting Rights Act of 1965, is essentially an extension of the Emancipation Proclamation and abolition of slavery initiated by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in the 19th century. In the current and former British West Indies islands, the holiday Emancipation Day is celebrated to mark the end of the Atlantic slave trade.
Women's rights is another example of an emancipation effort. It began in earnest at the end of the 19th century in the form of the so-called suffrage (voting rights) movement and gained more attention during the 1970s in western countries with calls for laws barring discrimination in the workplace and demands for equal pay among other issues.
(source: Wikipedia)
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SYNONYMS
enfranchise, liberate, set free, unchain, unfetter
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"After 14 hours it's time to emancipate ourselves from work and get some sleep."
