emancipated
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Freed from traditional social, legal, or intellectual restraints: Describes a person who has been liberated from restrictive customs, laws, or systems of control, often relating to gender roles, servitude, or authority.
- Independent and self-determined: Characterizes someone who lives with a high degree of personal freedom and autonomy, making their own choices.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- She became an emancipated woman, free to choose her own career and lifestyle.
- The formerly enslaved people were officially declared emancipated after the war.
- His emancipated views on education challenged the traditional curriculum.
Advanced Usage
- "to be emancipated from something": to be formally or effectively freed from a specific oppressive condition or system.
- The movement fought for women to be emancipated from restrictive domestic roles.
- Legal Context: In law, an emancipated minor is a person below the age of majority who has been granted legal independence from their parents or guardians.
- The court declared her an emancipated minor, allowing her to sign her own contracts.
Variants and Related Words
- Emancipate (verb): To set free from legal, social, or political restrictions.
- The goal was to emancipate the workers from exploitative conditions.
- Emancipation (noun): The process or act of being set free.
- The emancipation of the serfs was a major social reform.
- Emancipator (noun): A person who frees others from oppression.
- He is remembered as a great emancipator.
Synonyms
- Liberated: Freed, especially from oppression or rigid social conventions.
- Independent: Not influenced or controlled by others; self-governing.
- Autonomous: Having the freedom to govern itself or control its own affairs.
Antonyms
- Oppressed: Subject to harsh and authoritarian treatment.
- Subjugated: Brought under domination or control.
- Restricted: Limited or confined.
Related Phrases and Concepts
- Emancipation Proclamation: The executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 that declared the freedom of enslaved people in the Confederate states.
- Intellectual emancipation: The freeing of the mind from dogma, tradition, or unexamined assumptions.
- The philosopher's writings contributed to the intellectual emancipation of his era.
Adjective
- free from traditional social restraints
- an emancipated young woman pursuing her career
- a liberated lifestyle