Word Meanings - EMANCIPATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To set free from the power of another; to liberate; as: To set free, as a minor from a parent; as, a father may emancipate a child. To set free from bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit; as, to emancipate a slave, or a country. Brasidas .

Additional info about word: EMANCIPATE

To set free from the power of another; to liberate; as: To set free, as a minor from a parent; as, a father may emancipate a child. To set free from bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit; as, to emancipate a slave, or a country. Brasidas . . . declaring that he was sent to emancipate Hellas. Jowett . To free from any controlling influence, especially from anything which exerts undue or evil influence; as, to emancipate one from prejudices or error. From how many troublesome and slavish impertinences . . . he had emancipated and freed himself. Evelyn. To emancipate the human conscience. A. W. Ward. (more info) emancipate; e + mancipare to transfer ownership in, fr. manceps purchaser, as being one who laid his hand on the thing bought; manus

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EMANCIPATE)

• Ransom
• Redeem
• release
• indemnify
• emancipate
• free
• liberate
• unfetter
• redeem

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of EMANCIPATE)

• Bind
• constrain
• confine
• shackle
• fetter
• yoke

Related words: (words related to EMANCIPATE)

• EMANCIPATE
  Set at liberty.
• REDEEM
  Hence, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. Gal. iii. 13. 5. To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem
• CONSTRAINTIVE
  Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
• FETTERLESS
  Free from fetters. Marston.
• SHACKLE
  1. To tie or confine the limbs of, so as to prevent free motion; to bind with shackles; to fetter; to chain. To lead him shackled, and exposed to scorn Of gathering crowds, the Britons' boasted chief. J. Philips. 2. Figuratively: To bind or confine
• RELEASE
  To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
• CONFINELESS
  Without limitation or end; boundless. Shak.
• UNFETTER
  To loose from fetters or from restraint; to unchain; to unshackle; to liberate; as, to unfetter the mind.
• CONSTRAINED
  Marked by constraint; not free; not voluntary; embarrassed; as, a constrained manner; a constrained tone.
• INDEMNIFY
  1. To save harmless; to secure against loss or damage; to insure. The states must at last engage to the merchants here that they will indemnify them from all that shall fall out. Sir W. Temple. 2. To make restitution or compensation for, as for
• REDEEMER
  1. One who redeems. 2. Specifically, the Savior of the world, Jesus Christ.
• CONFINEMENT
  1. Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion. The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself under confinement when the sight is pent up. Addison. 2. Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by
• CONSTRAINT
  The act of constraining, or the state of being constrained; that which compels to, or restrains from, action; compulsion; restraint; necessity. Long imprisonment and hard constraint. Spenser. Not by constraint, but bDryden. Syn. -- Compulsion;
• RELEASEMENT
  The act of releasing, as from confinement or obligation. Milton.
• CONSTRAINABLE
  Capable of being constrained; liable to constraint, or to restraint. Hooker.
• REDEEMABLENESS
  The quality or state of being redeemable; redeemability.
• RELEASEE
  One to whom a release is given.
• RELEASER
  One who releases, or sets free.
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• CONSTRAINER
  One who constrains.
• UNREDEEMED
  Not redeemed.
• DELIBERATELY
  With careful consideration, or deliberation; circumspectly; warily; not hastily or rashly; slowly; as, a purpose deliberately formed.
• DELIBERATE
  1. Weighing facts and arguments with a view a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; circumspect; slow in determining; -- applied to persons; as, a deliberate judge or counselor. "These deliberate fools."
• ENFETTER
  To bind in fetters; to enchain. "Enfettered to her love." Shak.
• CONFINE
  To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close. Now let not nature's hand Keep the wild flood confined! let order die! Shak. He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of
• RAMSHACKLE
  Loose; disjointed; falling to pieces; out of repair. There came . . . my lord the cardinal, in his ramshackle coach. Thackeray.
• UNSHACKLE
  To loose from shackles or bonds; to set free from restraint; to unfetter. Addison.