emancipation
/ɪˌmænsɪˈpeɪʃn/ (bre, ipa) · /ɪˌmænsɪˈpeɪʃn/ (ame, ipa) · /i-ˌman(t)-sə-ˈpā-shən/ (ame, mw)
emancipation — noun
1. the act of making a person or group free in law or society, ending another perso
the act of making a person or group free in law or society, ending another person's control or an unjust system over them.
The new law brought emancipation to people who had been kept as slaves.
emancipation through a legal change
After the court order, Mina's emancipation gave her control of her own money.
legal emancipation of a minor
Activists celebrated the emancipation of political prisoners in the capital square.
For Jun, emancipation meant leaving his guardian's house and making his own choices.
Women's emancipation changed who could vote, study, and own property in the country.
- liberation
more dramatic and often tied to oppression, war, or national struggle
- freedom
broader and more everyday; not always about a formal legal change
- independence
focuses more on self-rule or not relying on others than on being set free by law
- oppression
unfair control that emancipation brings to an end
- enslavement
the state of being treated as property or kept under total control
- subjugation
formal word for being forced under another power
文法句型
emancipation of + person/group
emancipation from + control
用法筆記
Usually appears in legal, political, or historical writing rather than everyday conversation. Common patterns are 'emancipation of + group' for collective freedom and 'emancipation from + control' for the power being removed.