单词 | emancipate |
释义 | emancipate From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishemancipatee‧man‧ci‧pate /ɪˈmænsəpeɪt/ verb [transitive]formalFREE/NOT IN PRISON to give someone the political or legal rights that they did not have before Slaves were emancipated in 1834. —emancipation /ɪˌmænsəˈpeɪʃən/ noun [uncountable]→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusemancipate• The justices were no more able to emancipate Dred Scott than they were able to emancipate themselves.• The country had been emancipated from thirteen years of middle-level Conservative rule of reasonable efficiency, modest dynamism but small-power idealism.• During the Civil War, he aided newly emancipated slaves.• The proportion of highly placed advisers who had nothing to lose if serfs were emancipated would accordingly diminish.Origin emancipate (1600-1700) Latin emancipatus, past participle of emancipare, from mancipium “ownership” |
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