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单词 liberated
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liberatedadj.

Brit. /ˈlɪbəreɪtᵻd/, U.S. /ˈlɪbəˌreɪdᵻd/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: liberate v., -ed suffix1.
Etymology: < liberate v. + -ed suffix1.
1. Perhaps: vacant, unoccupied. Obsolete. rare.
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1758 Public Advertiser 28 Apr. To be lett, a First Floor, elegantly furnished, in a liberated Place not far from Charing-cross.
2.
a. Set free; released (esp. from confinement or servitude).
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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
1781 T. Bever Hist. Legal Polity Rom. State iv. i. 444 Jurisprudence..was now consigned over to the most illiterate and contemptible plebeians, and liberated slaves.
1794 E. Burke Pref. to Brissot's Addr. Constituents in Wks. (1808) VII. 305 This liberated galley-slave.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Satyrane's Lett. ii, in Biogr. Lit. (1882) 252 A liberated bird..who now after his first soar of freedom poises himself in the upper air.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxi. 147 The partially liberated streams flowed..over their own ice.
1919 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 13 388 Other infractions were stated to be ill-treatment of inhabitants of evacuated territory and neglect of liberated prisoners of war.
1965 Negro Digest July 14 When he breaks away from the tyrannies of chord and meter, it is like a liberated satellite seeking the heavens beyond.
1997 M. Craton Empire, Enslavement & Freedom in Caribbean xviii. 378 Many thousands of liberated Africans were resettled in the British West Indies.
b. Freed from restrictive or discriminatory social conventions and attitudes, esp. with regard to gender roles; characterized by such freedom. Cf. emancipated adj. 2.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > [adjective] > discriminatory or inegalitarian > by sex > opposition to > advocate or supporter of
advanced1871
liberated1887
new womanish1894
1887 Forum Sept. 12 It was not doubted that the unshackled and liberated women of the Bay State would flock to the polling-places.
1909 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 14 621 Maternity will claim its just place in the interests of a liberated woman only if, as a child, she is made to understand what the end of this function is and its dignity has been impressed upon her mind.
1926 Amer. Mercury Mar. 273/2 As a liberated woman, she may, in theory, go anywhere she wishes at any hour she wishes.
1963 Life Mar. 65/1 Helen..conjures images of a liberated single girl, complete with Capri pants, a sophisticated little apartment and a delicious absence of guilt feelings.
1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 25 Sept. 12/7 Liberated school. The co-eds from women's colleges in Virginia are going to attend formerly all-male Davidson College.
1973 ‘D. Jordan’ Nile Green ix. 41 He resents me because I'm a liberated woman who can support herself.
1983 Yoga Jrnl. Mar. 5/2 A riveting book that turns upside down all of our unquestioned attitudes about sex in these liberated times.
1993 E. Guerrero Framing Blackness 4 This new wave of films and filmmakers holds out renewed hope for the future of a liberated black cinema.
1999 Dance Nov. 72/1 This deeply rooted homophobia has an insidious effect—even among ‘liberated’ people.
3. Chemistry and Physics. Of gas, energy, etc.: released as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition.
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1799 H. Davy in T. Beddoes Contrib. Physical & Med. Knowl. 133 If the temperature is not gradually and slowly increased, the liberated gases are carbonic acid and hydrogen.
1873 Chem. News 28 Mar. 147/1 The first idea..was to recompress the animal, in order to re-dissolve the liberated gas.
1924 A. J. Allmand & H. J. T. Ellingham Princ. Appl. Electrochem. (ed. 2) i. 3 The reaction being electrochemical, the liberated energy appears as electrical energy.
1976 New Scientist 8 Jan. 104/3 There will be a sharp click, but no actual explosion—for the liberated energy only suffices to raise the water to 50°C.
2004 P. Roberts End Oil (2005) iii. 70 The liberated carbon..also rebinds with oxygen to produce carbon dioxide.
4.
a. Of a region or its people: freed from enemy control or occupation.
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1799 Evening Mail 29–31 May The gratitude of a liberated nation has made it unnecessary to attenuate the columns of the conqueror by garrisons and armies of observation.
1820 Lit. & Sci. Repository July 262 The kingdom of Westphalia fell to pieces, and the liberated people returned to the beneficent rule of their sovereigns of a thousand years.
1865 A. Manning Selvaggio xxiii. 279 Both reached Milan comparatively unhurt; and ecstatic were Emilio's feelings as he passed through the ornamental iron-work gates of the liberated city.
1919 G. B. Ford Out of Ruins iii. 64 This liberated region was all considered part of the war zone and circulation was difficult.
1959 G. Slatter Gun in my Hand 226 A triumphal procession through liberated San Giorgio.
2005 J. J. Norwich in Duff Cooper Diaries 329 He served in SOE during the war and in 1944 was attached to the British Embassy, reporting on the liberated regions of France.
b. colloquial (originally Military slang). Misappropriated, stolen.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > [adjective] > stolen
stolenc1380
stole1393
thief-stolen1551
bribed1552
lifted1559
embezzled1603
purloined1607
felon1631
rifled1638
furtive1718
stealed1883
crook1900
hot-stuffed1929
liberated1944
nicked1955
ripped1971
1944 C. E. Taylor Let. Oct. in J. B. Litoff et al. Miss You (1990) iv. 203 [A] liberated pig.
1957 H. Roosenburg Walls came tumbling Down iv. 91 A lot of Russians careening along the road on liberated bicycles.
1971 AMA News Feb. 8/3 A ‘liberated’ Standard sign had been placed at the only building in town with an exterior that looked like a service station.
2005 Guardian 30 Aug. ii. 4/3 A group of activists fare-dodged on to the tube, where they had a party featuring liberated food and drink.
5. Botany. Of a plant structure: partly attached and partly free; partly adnate. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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1855 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) 594/1 Liberatus... Bot. Applied to a part which adheres to another, but which is separated to a certain extent, as the filaments of the stamens of a synanthereous flower... Liberated.
1888 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Liberated, in Botany, applied to a structure which is in part adherent to another and in part free.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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