Sample Sentences for
emancipated
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    In 1776, a committee of Quakers emancipated forty slaves, but authorities declared the act illegal.
    emancipated = released from slavery
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    First, in two chapters I have tried to show what Emancipation meant to them, and what was its aftermath.  (source)
    Emancipation = the act of being released from slavery or servitude; or (metaphorically) from social restraints
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    Since emancipation, almost a hundred years ago,  (source)
    emancipation = release from slavery
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    But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.  (source)
    emancipation = the act of being released from slavery or servitude; or (metaphorically) from social restraints
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    Davis has been declared an emancipated minor by the state and is his brother's legal guardian.†  (source)
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    —Clytie who in the very pigmentation of her flesh represented that debacle which had brought Judith and me to what we were and which had made of her (Clyne) that which she declined to be just as she had declined to be that from which its purpose had been to emancipate her, as though presiding aloof upon the new, she deliberately remained to represent to us the threatful portent of the old.†  (source)
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    The light of day reassured me; I went and threw myself on the bed, without parting with the emancipating knife, which I concealed under my pillow.†  (source)
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    Despite his seemingly progressive actions, Mt de Klerk was by no means the great emancipator.†  (source)
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    A backlash of antiemancipation sentiment began to surface in the letters of a number of them in 1862.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "anti-" in antiemancipation means against or opposite. This is the same pattern you see in words like antiviral, antiaircraft, and antisocial.
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    Therefore every man has perfect freedom, provided he emancipates himself from mundane desires.†  (source)
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    The great emancipators.†  (source)
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    Elwood dressed in the dark slacks from last year's Emancipation Day play.†  (source)
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    I wish my mum could be emancipated, a feminist, a working mother, etc., and manage to do my ironing.†  (source)
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