emancipator
(ɪˈmænsɪpeɪtə(r))
Also 8 emancipater.
[a. L. ēmancipātor, f. ēmancipā-re to emancipate.]
One who emancipates. lit. and fig.
| 1782 Sir W. Jones tr. Mahomedan Law Success. Wks. 1799 III. 492 Those who inherit among males are..The son, and the son's son..and the husband, and the emancipator nearly connected. 1828 Blackw. Mag. XXIV. 5 Such is our classification..of the heads of the Catholic Emancipators. 1830 Mackintosh Ethical Philos. Wks. 1846 I. 38 The emancipators of Reason. 1878 Stanford Symb. Christ ii. 45 They waited for Him as their Emancipator from the Roman yoke. |