eˈmancipated, ppl. a.
[f. prec. + -ed.]
1. Set free, released: a. from the patria potestas. (Roman Law.)
| 1726 Ayliffe Parerg. 33 Emancipated children. 1870 Lubbock Orig. Civiliz. iv. (1875) 152 An emancipated son ceased to be one of the family. |
b. from a state of slavery or imprisonment.
| 1776 Adam Smith W.N. I. iii. iii. 402 A parcel of emancipated slaves. 1837 J. Lang New S. Wales II. 38 The writer was an emancipated convict. 1878 Browning Poets Croisic xli, Erect, Triumphant, an emancipated slave. |
2. fig. Freed from prejudices, moral or customary restraints, conventional rules, etc. Esp. of or relating to women.
| 1850 G. E. Jewsbury Let. 29 Aug. (1892) 365, I don't think he knew what an ‘emancipated woman’ he was showing off to. 1887 Pall Mall G. 25 Oct. 4/2 These emancipated compositions..fail to sound as they did beneath Liszt's own magic touch. 1888 Mrs. H. Ward R. Elsmere III. v. xxxi. 7 His wife..was..in all matters of religious or political opinion ‘emancipated’ to an extreme. 1904 Conrad Nostromo ii. iii. 129 The tall Antonia..offered him her hand (in her emancipated way). 1970 Guardian 16 Sept. 11/5 As emancipated as the Lebanese are educated Palestinian women, who are influential in many Middle East countries. |