emancipation

See also: émancipation

English

Etymology

1630, from French émancipation, from Latin ēmancipātiō. In the US, with reference to anti-slavery, abolitionism, first used in 1785 by Charles Godfrey Leland. In Britain, with reference to easing of restrictions on Catholics, in 19th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˌmæn.səˈpeɪ.ʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

emancipation (usually uncountable, plural emancipations)

1. The act of setting free from the power of another, as from slavery, subjection, dependence, or controlling influence.
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 308:

     Ireland, last year, was to be paradise, if that Peri, emancipation, was but sent there; now it is a wretched, degraded, oppressed country, unless the Union be dissolved! What ever will it be the year after? So much for any certainty of right in this world!

   • 2022 June 24 [2022 March], Luobbal Sámmol Sámmol Ánte, Jussi Ylikoski, “North Saami”, in Marianne Bakró-Nagy, Johanna Laakso, Elena Skribnik, editors, The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages, Oxford University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 147:

     As a result of the strengthening of ethnolinguistic emancipation since the second half of the twentieth century, North Saami now enjoys probably stronger legal and institutional support than any other “minor” Uralic language[.]

2. 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).

   US President Abraham Lincoln was called the Great Emancipator after issuing the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.

Synonyms

• (setting free from slavery): manumission

Derived terms

• Emancipation Day
• emancipationist
• emancipation waist
• nonemancipation
• postemancipation

Related terms

• emancipate
• emancipator
• emancipatoric (rare, nonstandard)
• emancipatrix

Translations

act of setting free from the power of another

• Albanian: emancipim (sq) m
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: эмансіпа́цыя f (emansipácyja), вызвале́нне n (vyzvaljénnje)
• Bulgarian: еманципа́ция (bg) f (emancipácija)
• Catalan: emancipació (ca) f
• Cherokee: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 解放 (zh) (jiěfàng)

• Czech: osvobození (cs) n, emancipace f
• Danish: frigørelse c, frigørelser c pl
• Dutch: ontvoogding (nl) f, emancipatie (nl) f
• Esperanto: emancipiĝo
• Finnish: vapauttaminen (fi), vapautus (fi)
• French: émancipation (fr) f
• Galician: emancipación (gl) f
• German: Emanzipation (de) f, Freilassung (de) f
• Greek: χειραφέτηση (el) f (cheirafétisi)
• Hebrew: אמנציפציה (he) f (emantsipátsya)
• Hungarian: felszabadítás (hu), emancipáció (hu)
• Irish: fuascailt f
• Japanese: 解放 (ja) (かいほう, kaihō)
• Kazakh: эмансипация (émansipasiä)
• Khmer: ការអោយរួចជាអ្នកជា (kaa aoy ruəch jie neak jie)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ڕزگاری (ckb) (rizgarî)

• Latvian: emancipācija f, atbrīvošana f
• Macedonian: ослободување n (osloboduvanje), еманципација f (emancipacija)
• Polish: emancypacja (pl) f, wyzwolenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: emancipação (pt) f
• Romanian: emancipare (ro)
• Russian: эмансипа́ция (ru) f (emansipácija), освобожде́ние (ru) n (osvoboždénije)
• Sanskrit: मोक्ष (sa) m (mokṣa)
• Spanish: emancipación (es) f, manumisión f
• Sranan Tongo: manspasi
• Swedish: frigörelse (sv) c, emancipation (sv) c
• Ukrainian: емансипа́ція f (emansypácija), зві́льнення n (zvílʹnennja)
• Welsh: rhyddfreiniad m
• Yiddish: עמאַנציפּאַציע f (emantsipatsye)

Swedish

Noun

emancipation c

1. emancipation

Declension

Declension of emancipation

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	emancipation	emancipations
	definite	emancipationen	emancipationens
plural	indefinite	emancipationer	emancipationers
	definite	emancipationerna	emancipationernas