Word Meanings - EMANCIPATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of setting free from the power of another, from slavery, subjection, dependence, or controlling influence; also, the state of being thus set free; liberation; as, the emancipation of slaves; the emancipation of minors; the emancipation of

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The act of setting free from the power of another, from slavery, subjection, dependence, or controlling influence; also, the state of being thus set free; liberation; as, the emancipation of slaves; the emancipation of minors; the emancipation of a person from prejudices; the emancipation of the mind from superstition; the emancipation of a nation from tyranny or subjection. Syn. -- Deliverance; liberation; release; freedom; manumission; enfranchisement.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EMANCIPATION)

• manumission
• Liberation
• release
• emancipation
• enfranchisement
• discharge
• dismissal

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of EMANCIPATION)

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

Related words: (words related to EMANCIPATION)

• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• RELEASE
  To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• CONSTRAINTIVE
  Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
• FETTERLESS
  Free from fetters. Marston.
• EMANCIPATIONIST
  An advocate of emancipation, esp. the emancipation of slaves.
• LIBERATION
  The act of liberating or the state of being liberated. This mode of analysis requires perfect liberation from all prejudged system. Pownall.
• CONFINELESS
  Without limitation or end; boundless. Shak.
• CONSTRAINED
  Marked by constraint; not free; not voluntary; embarrassed; as, a constrained manner; a constrained tone.
• 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
• 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.
• DISCHARGER
  One who, or that which, discharges. Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod.
• DISCHARGE
  1. To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel. 2. To free of the missile with which anything is charged or loaded; to let go the charge of; as, to discharge
• RELEASEE
  One to whom a release is given.
• RELEASER
  One who releases, or sets free.
• CONSTRAINER
  One who constrains.
• FETTERED
  Seeming as if fettered, as the feet pf certain animals which bend backward, and appear unfit for walking.
• ENFETTER
  To bind in fetters; to enchain. "Enfettered to her love." Shak.
• UNFETTER
  To loose from fetters or from restraint; to unchain; to unshackle; to liberate; as, to unfetter the mind.
• 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.