[ adj ] free from traditional social restraints <adj.all> an emancipated young woman pursuing her careera liberated lifestyle
Emancipate \E*man"ci*pate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Emancipated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Emancipating}.] [L. emancipatus, p. p. of emancipare to emancipate; e + mancipare to transfer ownership in, fr. manceps purchaser, as being one who laid his hand on the thing bought; manus hand + capere to take. See {Manual}, and {Capable}.] To set free from the power of another; to liberate; as: (a) To set free, as a minor from a parent; as, a father may emancipate a child. (b) To set free from bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit; as, to emancipate a slave, or a country.
Brasidas . . . declaring that he was sent to emancipate Hellas. --Jowett (Thucyd. ). (c) To free from any controlling influence, especially from anything which exerts undue or evil influence; as, to emancipate one from prejudices or error.
From how many troublesome and slavish impertinences . . . he had emancipated and freed himself. --Evelyn.
To emancipate the human conscience. --A. W. Ward.
emancipated \emancipated\ adj. 1. free from traditional social restraints; -- used especially of women; as, an emancipated young woman pursuing her career. [WordNet sense 1]
Syn: liberated. [WordNet 1.5]
2. freed from bondage. [WordNet sense 2]
Syn: freed, liberated. [WordNet 1.5]
"We must take note of the fact that some people favoring reform and the open policy are not sober-minded enough, and that others who stress adherence (to Marxist principles) are not mentally emancipated enough," Mr. Zhao said.
The emancipated students at Bryn Mawr College, a women's college with a capital "W," put down their feminist literature on May Day to don frilly white dresses and dance around five Maypoles in a ritual spanning nine decades.