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lib·era·tion (lib′ər ā′s̸hən)

noun

  1. a liberating or being liberated
  2. ☆ the securing of equal social and economic rights women's liberation movement

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liberation Synonyms

liberation

n.

  1. Emancipation

    rescue, freedom, deliverance; see freeing.

  2. Release; said of chemicals

    freeing, separation, displacement, hydrolysis, diffusion, sublimation, distillation, breaking ionic bonding, breaking covalent bonding, evaporation, osmosis, breakdown of organic compounds, breakdown of inorganic compounds, splitting of molecular structure, dividing of molecular structure.


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liberation Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • humanity: Our movement today is fighting not just for equality with men but for the liberation of all humanity.

Preposition: from

  • tyranny: The entire Yadav people began to pray for liberation from the tyranny of Kansa.

Converse of object

  • attain: The second part of the course will be held at Buddha Land Center in Keighley and will explain the actual method to attain liberation.

Adjective modifier

  • allied: This existence obviously became even more uneasy after the Allied liberation of Paris.

Modifies a noun

  • theology: What aspects of liberation theology still seem relevant to you?
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liberation quotes

I sometimesthink that running hasgiven me a glimpse of the greatest freedom a man can ever know, because it results in the simultaneous liberation of both body and mind.

-Bannister, Sir Roger Gilbert

This is the use of memory: For liberationönot less of love but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the future as well as the past.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

All thistime [San Francisco, from1955] Irealized we were involved as a community with a historical change of consciousness and some kind of cultural revolution† I thought it wasreally insomerespects a contest between further liberation or1984 authoritarianism, police state; that it was creeping police state or creeping socialism- libertarianism.

-Ginsberg, Allen

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