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Definition of Emancipated
1. Adjective. Free from traditional social restraints. "A liberated lifestyle"
Definition of Emancipated
1. Verb. (past of emancipate) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Emancipated
1. emancipate [v] - See also: emancipate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Emancipated
Literary usage of Emancipated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Institutes of Justinian: With English Introduction, Translation, and Notes by William Gardiner Hammond (1876)
"He speaks of children emancipated, and then giving themselves by ... But adopted
children, when emancipated, lose the rank of children by the civil law, ..."
2. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (1883)
"During the brief remainder of the trip, I knew how an emanci- 'AN emancipated
SLAVE.' pated slave feels; for I was an emancipated slave myself. ..."
3. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1868)
"And emancipation 1 You have already emancipated nearly two millions of our ...
Against their will you ' emancipated ' them ; and you may • emancipate ..."
4. The Law of Freedom and Bondage in the United States by John Codman Hurd (1858)
"passing out of the chattel or bond condition, the subsequent condition of the
emancipated African or Indian would be determined by the same principles which ..."
5. The Americans at Home: Pen-and-ink Sketches of American Men, Manners, and by David Macrae (1870)
"I WAS glad to find the condition and prospects of the emancipated slaves better
than the reports circulated in this country had led me to expect. ..."
6. System of Positive Polity by Auguste Comte (1877)
"Quite other is the result when the most thoroughly emancipated are seen to be
also the most definite in their convictions, provided that they prove the ..."
7. Roman Private Law in the Times of Cicero and of the Antonines by Henry John Roby (1902)
"Children by adoption were treated as natural children so long as they continued
in the adoptive family : but, if emancipated, they thereby lost all rights ..."
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