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emancipee

noun

Etymology

From emancip(ate) + -ee.

  1. learned borrowing from ēmancipātus — “liberated, emancipated”
  2. suffixed as emancipee — “emancipate + ee”

Definitions

  1. Someone freed from moral or conventional restraints

    Someone freed from moral or conventional restraints; an emancipated woman.

    • Lydia Lensky, married to the young doctor, became with him a patriot and an emancipee.

  2. Someone who has been freed from bondage

    Someone who has been freed from bondage; a released slave or prisoner.

    • The convict emancipee Robert Alexander was given very specific instructions by Jinoor Jack of the Bidwell-Maap people on how and when to burn the bush in the Genoa Valley in East Gippsland.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA