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emancipation|ɪˌmænsɪˈpeɪʃən|
[a. F. émancipation, f. L. ēmancipātiōn-em, n. of action f. ēmancipāre to emancipate.]
1. Roman Law. The action or process of setting children free from the patria potestas.
1651W. G. tr. Cowel's Inst. 29 Paternall Jurisdiction is dissolved also by Emancipation. 1696Phillips, Emancipation hath the same reference to Children, as manumission to Servants. 1880Muirhead Gaius Dig. 486.
2. a. The action or process of setting free or delivering from slavery; and hence, generally, from restraints imposed by superior physical force or legal obligation; liberation. Often used with reference to the freeing of Roman Catholics from the civil disabilities imposed on them by English law. Catholic Emancipation Act: the popular designation of the Act 10 Geo. IV. c. 7 (1829), by which those disabilities were removed.
1785Jefferson Let. 7 Aug. (1853) I. 377 Emancipation is put in such a train that in a few years there will be no slaves northward of Maryland. 1797Burke Affairs Irel. Wks. (1812) IX. 454 The Opposition..connects the emancipation of the Catholicks with these schemes of reformation. 1835Thirlwall Greece I. viii. 312 Emancipation of Helots was not unfrequent. 1860Motley Netherl. (1868) I. i. 6 A harvest of civil and religious emancipation. 1872Yeats Growth Comm. 254 The royal monopoly..was for the age an emancipation rather than a restriction of labour.
b. transf. and fig. Setting free, delivering from intellectual, moral, or spiritual fetters.
a1631Donne Serm. 27 Redeeming Emancipation, a delivering from the chaines of Satan. 1774T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry (1840) III. 403 A certain freedom and activity of mind..followed the national emancipation from superstition. 1841–4Emerson Ess. Poet Wks. (Bohn) I. 166 The use of symbols has a certain power of emancipation and exhilaration for all men. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 607 The day on which the emancipation of our literature was accomplished. 1874Morley Compromise (1886) 105 The great spiritual emancipation of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. |