emancipatedadj.
1. Set free, released:
a. from the patria potestas. (Roman Law.)
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the world > people > person > adult > [adjective] > legal maturity
sui juris1590
majorc1600
emancipated1726
society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > [adjective] > liberated > from patria potestas
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1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 33 Emancipated children.
1875 J. Lubbock Origin of Civilisation (ed. 3) iv. 152 An emancipated son ceased to be one of the family.
b. from a state of slavery or imprisonment.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > [adjective] > liberated
well-deliveredc1515
franchised1576
enfranchised1579
released1587
liberate1598
affranchised1603
enlarged1645
emancipated1776
liberated1781
1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. iii. iii. 485 A parcel of emancipated slaves. View more context for this quotation
1837 J. D. Lang Hist. Acct. New S. Wales II. 38 The writer was an emancipated convict.
1878 R. Browning Poets Croisic xli Erect, Triumphant, an emancipated slave.
2. figurative. Freed from prejudices, moral or customary restraints, conventional rules, etc. Esp. of or relating to women.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > freedom of action or from restraint > [adjective] > free from customary restraints
emancipate1605
unconventional1840
emancipated1850
1850 G. E. Jewsbury Let. 29 Aug. (1892) 365 I don't think he knew what an ‘emancipated woman’ he was showing off to.
1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 25 Oct. 4/2 These emancipated compositions..fail to sound as they did beneath Liszt's own magic touch.
1888 Mrs. H. Ward Robert Elsmere III. v. xxxi. 7 His wife..was..in all matters of religious or political opinion ‘emancipated’ to an extreme.
1904 J. Conrad Nostromo ii. iii. 129 The tall Antonia..offered him her hand (in her emancipated way).
1970 Guardian 16 Sept. 11/5 As emancipated as the Lebanese are educated Palestinian women, who are influential in many Middle East countries.
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