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Example sentences for "emancipated"

Lexicographically close words:
emanates; emanating; emanation; emanations; emancipate; emancipates; emancipating; emancipation; emancipationists; emancipations
  1. He was one of the first of the young Roman nobles who emancipated themselves from the papal rule.

  2. You both of you have got to subscribe for my paper, The Emancipated Woman.

  3. I must confess that I found my evening at Mrs. Cerulean's salon a very agreeable one; the conversation of thoroughly emancipated people has a sparkling variety to it which is exactly the thing to give one a lively, pleasant evening.

  4. In the character of Harriet Freke, Miss Edgeworth vividly portrays the manners and sentiments of the modern emancipated women of our times, who think themselves "Ne'er so sure our passion to create, As when they touch the brink of all we hate.

  5. He was scarcely emancipated from the guardianship of Luther, before he felt his zeal revive against the images.

  6. By it he felt emancipated from the dogmatical authority of the Church, from its hierarchy and traditions, from the opinions of the schoolmen, the power of prejudice, and from every human ordinance.

  7. He emancipated learning from the hands of the priests, who had monopolized it like those of Egypt in times of old, and put it within the reach of all.

  8. Thus the monks, the soldiers of the hierarchy, emancipated by the Word, boldly took part against Rome.

  9. If Sophia had freed herself from the customary seclusion of Princesses, Peter emancipated himself from the usual proprieties of the palace.

  10. It is not the emancipated serf, but it is rural Russia which the Duma represented, and the vastness of the area covered by that term is realized when one learns that of the 450 members constituting that body only eighteen were from cities.

  11. They hated the nobility for stealing from them their freedom and their land; and the nobility hated them for not being prosperous and happy, and for bringing famine and misery into the state, which had been so kind and had emancipated them.

  12. She then emancipated the girl, gave her to him by a marriage-contract, prepared her paraphernalia, and furnished for her a separate apartment; and he took her as his wife in the year 1165.

  13. The Restoration emancipated thousands of minds from a yoke which had become insupportable.

  14. For study and reflection, though they had emancipated him from many vulgar prejudices, had left him a slave to vulgar desires.

  15. The conditions of the gift were that the convicts should be carried beyond sea as slaves, that they should not be emancipated for ten years, and that the place of their banishment should be some West Indian island.

  16. The civil power was unable to keep order in a district swarming with such inhabitants; and thus Whitefriars became the favourite resort of all who wished to be emancipated from the restraints of the law.

  17. The Parliament was instantly prorogued; and the court, thus emancipated from control, proceeded to the execution of the great design.

  18. That moment had now arrived; and the King, in the very act of dismissing the House, emancipated the Press.

  19. Well, the emancipated slaves, in coming North, left old associations behind them, and the love for the past was so strong that they could not find much beauty in the new life so suddenly opened to them.

  20. While some of the emancipated blacks pined for the old associations of slavery, and refused to help themselves, others went to work with commendable energy, and planned with remarkable forethought.

  21. Culture which has not the power to win the emancipation of its teachers does not produce emancipated and powerful pupils.

  22. Nor were the Jews finally emancipated from sacrificial rites until Christ himself made his own body an offering for the sins of the world, and in God's providence the Romans destroyed their temple and scattered their nation.

  23. Moses differs from them only in the completion and scope and elevation of his system, and in its freedom from the puerilities and superstitions which they blended with their truths, and from which he was emancipated by inspiration.

  24. It is exceedingly rare for any one to be emancipated from the tyranny of prevailing dogmas.

  25. The emancipated man must cast a weird and suspicious eye round him at all the institutions of the world, wondering which of them was destined to die in the next few centuries.

  26. Only You Never Can Tell was young enough to see that the emancipated woman is already old and respectable.

  27. Numberless magazine articles and society comedies describe the emancipated woman as new and wild.

  28. We are emancipated from normal surroundings.

  29. He thought "an emancipated creature who prides herself on being able to drink cocktails without losing caste.

  30. At present, if any slave elopes to any of those States where slaves are free, he becomes emancipated by their laws, for the laws of the States are uncharitable to one another in this respect.

  31. I do not stop to ask if the emancipated are better fed and clothed than formerly.

  32. The census exhibits unmistakable evidence that, without a change, the emancipated portion of the race, in these localities, will ultimately perish, and that this catastrophe is to be hastened by poverty and criminal degradation.

  33. And this would be equally the result, if we suppose the emancipated negroes to be in no way distinguished from the free laborers of other countries, and that their labor would be equally effective.

  34. The slave with us is not tantalized with the name of freedom, to which his whole condition gives the lie, and would do so if he were emancipated to-morrow.

  35. But becoming afterward apprehensive that the appellee had not been emancipated according to the laws of Maryland, he refused to pay the notes until he could be better satisfied as to Darnell's right to convey.

  36. You Americans have made no sacrifices for the cause of humanity: we Britons have emancipated our West India slaves.

  37. I have argued on the supposition that the emancipated negroes would be as efficient as other free laborers.

  38. The sole exceptions to this rule are emancipated brothers and sisters, though not in equal shares with them, but with some deduction, the amount of which can easily be ascertained from the terms of the constitution itself.

  39. If a testamentary guardian be given by a father to his emancipated son, he must be approved by the governor in all cases, though inquiry into the case is unnecessary.

  40. It is not necessary, by the civil law, to either institute or disinherit emancipated children, because they are not family heirs.

  41. The harsh result of this was that a son was by emancipation deprived of the ownership of a third of his property; and thus the honour which he got by being emancipated and made independent was balanced by the diminution of his fortune.

  42. An afterborn stranger again could not take a legacy; an afterborn stranger being one who on his birth will not be a family heir to the testator; thus a grandson by an emancipated son was held to be an afterborn stranger to his grandfather.

  43. When, however, they have been emancipated by their adoptive father, they are no longer regarded as his children either by the civil law or by the praetor's edict.

  44. You are emancipated for the sake of pleasure--she is emancipated for the sake of principle.

  45. I was a wayward lad, just emancipated from the ignorant illusions of childhood, with a living desire for the Infinite in my heart,--longing to prove scientifically the existence of the God in whom I no longer believed.

  46. The Colonial Legislatures, therefore, now listened to the voice of reason, and they, one after another, emancipated their slaves.

  47. Antigua in a minute emancipated all her slaves to the number of thirty thousand and upwards.

  48. He emancipated not merely the learned and cultivated classes, but the common people, from the fear of the Church; and this was the one thing needful for a true reformation.

  49. He is "held for life," or until emancipated according to law.

  50. On the other hand a son who had been emancipated (section 18) was excluded from agnatio with his father and his father's agnates, and could have no agnates of his own until he married or was adopted into another familia.

  51. Gaius has emancipated two of his sons, Balbus and Publius, and has adopted his grandson Servius, who had previously been emancipated by his father Marcus.

  52. Publius and Terentia were unmarried at the death of Gaius, who had emancipated none of his children.

  53. Law of the Ventre Libre, which emancipated all slaves to be born in the future.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "emancipated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    audacious; clear; detached; disengaged; easygoing; emancipated; free; freeborn; freed; liberated; loose; redeemed; released; unattached; unbound; uncommitted; untied