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emancipate verb [ ɪˈmansɪpeɪt ]

• set free, especially from legal, social, or political restrictions.
Similar: liberated, independent, unconstrained, unrepressed, uninhibited, free and easy, free, free-spirited,
Origin: early 17th century: from Latin emancipat- ‘transferred as property’, from the verb emancipare, from e- (variant of ex- ) ‘out’ + mancipium ‘slave’.


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