emancipation

[ ih-man-suh-pey-shuh n ]

/ ɪˌmæn səˈpeɪ ʃən /

the act of emancipating.

the state or fact of being emancipated.

Origin of emancipation

1625–35; < Latin ēmancipātiōn- (stem of ēmancipātiō), equivalent to ēmancipāt(us) (see emancipate) + -iōn- -ion

non·e·man·ci·pa·tion, noun pre·e·man·ci·pa·tion, noun self-e·man·ci·pa·tion, noun

But from the anguish of soulless industrial lagers rises the emancipation of artisan brewing.

House of the Witch: The Renegade Craft Brewers of Panama |Jeff Campagna |November 30, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The Emancipation Proclamation, as Nancy Pelosi reminds us, was an executive action.

Why We Can’t Quit Calling Presidents ‘Kings’ |Kevin Bleyer |November 22, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
That's why their emancipation is such a threat to cruel patriarchal power.

Forgotten Mothers |Tina Brown |May 11, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Southerners aggressively downplayed the idea that the Civil War was a war for emancipation of the enslaved African-Americans.

Star-Spangled Confederates: How Southern Sympathizers Decided Our National Anthem |Jefferson Morley |July 4, 2013 |DAILY BEAST

“Very few juvenile courts will allow a child to even file for emancipation,” Lemley says.

Want to Get Emancipated From Your Parents? Better Be Rich |Eliza Shapiro |May 17, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Everybody knows the steps by which this embodied selfishness achieved his emancipation from a dominant Church.

The Eighteen Christian Centuries |James White
I hear you constantly loudly demanding the emancipation of your sex.

Her Royal Highness Woman |Max O'Rell
Prejudices: celibacy of priests, futility of adultery, emancipation of woman.

Bouvard and Pcuchet, part 2 |Gustave Flaubert
Cruce and Leclerc, all ready to march under the guidance of your highness, to the emancipation of religion and the throne.

Chicot the Jester |Alexandre Dumas, Pere
President Lincoln's Proclamation of Emancipation was then read, and enthusiastically cheered.

The Freedmen's Book |Lydia Maria Child

emancipation

/ (ɪˌmænsɪˈpeɪʃən) /

the act of freeing or state of being freed; liberation

informal freedom from inhibition and convention

emancipationist, noun