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emancipation Synonyms

emancipation

n.

liberty, release, liberation; see freedom 1, freeing.

emancipation Law Definition

n

The liberation of an individual or a group from a constraint, such as the emancipation of slaves; in family law, the process by which a minor child becomes legally and financially independent of his or her parents and receives the legal rights, at least in some respects, of an adult.
emancipation Quotes

Women cannot be expected to devote themselves to the emancipation of women, until men in considerable number are prepared to join with them in the undertaking.

—Mill,John Stuart

If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed.

—Greer, Germaine

   It is a great war for the emancipation of Europe from the thralldom of a military caste which has thrown its shadows upon two generations of men, and is now plunging theworld intoawelterof bloodshedand death.

—Lloyd George (of Dwyfor), David, 1st Earl