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单词 emancipation
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emancipationn.

/ɪˌmansɪˈpeɪʃən/
Etymology: < French émancipation, < Latin ēmancipātiōn-em , noun of action < ēmancipāre to emancipate v.
1. Roman Law. The action or process of setting children free from the patria potestas.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > person > adult > [noun] > becoming
adolescence?a1425
adolescency?a1475
maturation1616
emancipation1651
maturing1885
society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > [noun] > from patria potestas
emancipation1651
1651 W. G. tr. J. Cowell Inst. Lawes Eng. 29 Paternall Jurisdiction is dissolved also by Emancipation.
1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Emancipation hath the same reference to Children, as manumission to Servants.
1880 J. Muirhead Inst. of Gaius & Rules of Ulpian Digest 489 Emancipation, exclusion or release of a filiusfamilias from the patria potestas.
2.
a. The action or process of setting free or delivering from slavery; and hence, generally, from restraints imposed by superior physical force or legal obligation; liberation. Often used with reference to the freeing of Roman Catholics from the civil disabilities imposed on them by English law. Catholic Emancipation Act: the popular designation of the Act 10 Geo. IV. c. 7 (1829), by which those disabilities were removed. Emancipation Day: the day, January 1, 1863, when by President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation the slaves in the Southern States were declared to be free.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > [noun] > from slavery or legal restraint
emancipation1785
lib1970
1785 T. Jefferson Let. 7 Aug. in Papers (1953) VIII. 357 Emancipation is put into such a train that in a few years there will be no slaves northward of Maryland.
1797 E. Burke Let. Affairs Ireland in Wks. (1812) IX. 454 The Opposition..connects the emancipation of the Catholicks with these schemes of reformation.
1834 Southern Lit. Messenger 1 88 The abolitionists find fault with colonization because, say they, its aim is to postpone or prevent emancipation.
1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. viii. 312 Emancipation of Helots was not unfrequent.
1860 J. L. Motley Hist. Netherlands (1868) I. i. 6 A harvest of civil and religious emancipation.
1861 O. W. Norton Army Lett. 29 I am fully satisfied..that it [sc. the war] cannot be ended without the emancipation proclamation.
1865 Nation 1 163 Was the Emancipation Proclamation legally operative and efficient the moment it was uttered?
1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 254 The royal monopoly..was for the age an emancipation rather than a restriction of labour.
1905 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant 3 Jan. 10 The 42nd anniversary of Emancipation Day was celebrated last evening by the colored people of this city.
b. transferred and figurative. Setting free, delivering from intellectual, moral, or spiritual fetters.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > [noun] > from restraint > intellectual or moral
emancipationa1631
liberalization1794
a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1953) VI. 346 Redeeming, Emancipation, delivering from the chaines of Satan.
1781 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry IV. xliv. sig. A A certain freedom and activity of mind..followed the national emancipation from superstition.
1841–4 R. W. Emerson Poet in Wks. (1906) I. 166 The use of symbols has a certain power of emancipation and exhilaration for all men.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 607 The day on which the emancipation of our literature was accomplished.
1874 J. Morley On Compromise 82 The great spiritual emancipation of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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