Associations to the word «Emancipation»

Wiktionary

EMANCIPATION, noun. The act of setting free from the power of another, as from slavery, subjection, dependence, or controlling influence.
EMANCIPATION, noun. The state of being thus set free; liberation (used, for example, of slaves from bondage, of a person from prejudices, of the mind from superstition, of a nation from tyranny or subjugation).

Dictionary definition

EMANCIPATION, noun. Freeing someone from the control of another; especially a parent's relinquishing authority and control over a minor child.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne