emancipation

UK/ɪˌmæn.səˈpeɪ.ʃən/US/ɪˌmæn.səˈpeɪ.ʃən/

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Emancipation is the freeing of people from slavery or control. The emancipation of women.

The Latin behind it is releasing somebody from ownership, which was a legal act in Rome. Emancipation in law is a formal change and in practice takes generations.

Definitions of emancipation

1nounemancipationThe freeing of people from slavery or control.B2+
“The emancipation was declared in one year and enforced over twenty.”

emancipation is a freeing.

Where it comes from

Latin emancipatio meant releasing a son from a father's legal control, from e plus mancipium, ownership.

Proto-Indo-European
*kap-
Latin
ēmancipātiō
French
émancipation
English, today
emancipation

1630, from French émancipation, from Latin ēmancipātiō. In the US, with reference to anti-slavery, abolitionism, first used in 1785 by Charles Godfrey Leland. In Britain, with reference to easing of restrictions on Catholics, in 19th century.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

emancipation in the wild

In Georgia, the emancipation took place later, in 1864, and on much better terms for the nobles than in Russia.
Emancipation reform of 1861
Jewish emancipation followed after the Age of Enlightenment and the concurrent Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment.
Jewish emancipation
In the United States, all states have some form of emancipation of minors.
Emancipation of minors
The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which abolished slavery in the British Empire by way of compensated emancipation.
Slavery Abolition Act 1833
Only the District of Columbia, which was under federal control, used compensated emancipation as part of ending slavery in 1862.
Compensated emancipation

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