Associations to the word «Emancipate»

Wiktionary

EMANCIPATE, verb. To set free from the power of another; to liberate; as:
EMANCIPATE, verb. To set free, as a minor from a parent; as, a father may emancipate a child.
EMANCIPATE, verb. To set free from bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit; as, to emancipate a slave, or a country.
EMANCIPATE, verb. To free from any controlling influence, especially from anything which exerts undue or evil influence; as, to emancipate one from prejudices or error.
EMANCIPATE, adjective. Freed; set at liberty.

Dictionary definition

EMANCIPATE, verb. Give equal rights to; of women and minorities.
EMANCIPATE, verb. Free from slavery or servitude.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky