Both Uses of
emancipated
in
The Age of Innocence
- There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free; and he had long since discovered that May's only use of the liberty she supposed herself to possess would be to lay it on the altar of her wifely adoration.†
Chpt 20
- The young men nowadays were emancipating themselves from the law and business and taking up all sorts of new things.†
Chpt 34 *
Definition:
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(emancipated) released from slavery or servitude; or (metaphorically) from social restraints