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emancipative

emancipative

9.1
Making a person or group free from control
  • adjective
  • /ɪˈmænsɪpeɪtɪv/
  • Formal
translation icon : emancipador
  • The educational program aims to provide an emancipative experience that empowers students to make their own choices.

Examples

  • At the very least, Jesus' kingdom preaching and its intensification through his resurrection make it clear that one of God's intents is to promote human flourishing through the transformative power of the Holy Spirit and through the emancipative power of the Word of God that the Church is committed to making known in all cultural contexts.

    Academic text (2006)

  • Through its emancipative policies, the movement seeks to release marginalized communities from systemic oppression.

  • The organization's emancipative approach helps individuals find freedom from their past struggles.

Synonyms

liberatory
vsemancipative
  • Formal
1 7.7

Helping people become free from unfair control

focuses on tendency or actual freeing power rather than deliberate intent
liberative
vsemancipative
7.7

Causing people to become free from unfair control

tends to free others from control or the power of another

Antonyms

restrictive
52 4.7

Limits what people can do by rules or laws

How Liberating

emancipative
  • Formal
9.1

Surface Forms

emancipative positive

Morphology

emancipative = emancipate (transparent) = emancipate + ive

Derived by straightforward suffixation from the verb 'emancipate' with the adjectival meaning 'tending or having the power to emancipate'.

Etymology

Emancipative comes from Latin parts e- 'out of' and manus 'hand', and it shares the same root as manual. So it originally meant 'taken out of someone's hand', which explains why something emancipative tends to free people from another's control.