emancipation

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The act of setting free from the power of another, as from slavery, subjection, dependence, or controlling influence.

   “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!”

2. isim 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.”