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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

解放

Native Script:日本語

Pronunciation / Transliteration: kaihō

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Emancipation/ɪˌmæn.sɪˈpeɪ.ʃən/
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"個人の解放は近代社会の主要な目標である。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions.

    "The twentieth century was marked by the struggle for the emancipation of women."
  2. 2

    The freeing of someone from slavery.

    "The Emancipation Proclamation declared the freedom of all slaves in Confederate territory."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'emancipatio', stemming from 'e-' (out of) and 'mancipium' (ownership, slaves), originally referring to the formal release of a son or slave from patriarchal power in ancient Roman law. Over centuries, the term evolved to broadly encompass the fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions.

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