emancipator
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- noun
- /ɪˈmæn.sɪ.peɪ.tər/
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emancipador
- At one point, the Great Emancipator even embraced a plan to resettle freed slaves to parts of the Caribbean and South America before the policy collapsed in acrimony.
- the Great Emancipator
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
Examples
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After Lincoln's death and subsequent martyrdom, the old abolitionist was as effusive as anyone in his praise of the 'Great Emancipator.'
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Then, such pictures confirm, Lincoln's status as "Great Emancipator" was unquestioned and unquestionable.
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The Great Emancipator managed to lead the country through one of its more trying times, despite suffering from severe depression most of his life.
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The United States was supposed to be the emancipator, but instead it simply lorded over a people for whom it had little regard.
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It is hard to read such words of Lincoln's and still think of him as the Great Emancipator.
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Even though Lincoln was a Republican, the film's screenwriter Tony Kushner told the Hollywood Reporter that the Great Emancipator would scarcely recognize his party now.
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Following this line of argument, one is tempted to conclude that Lincoln lacked either the vision or the will to attack slavery directly and that he was a reluctant emancipator.
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"With that, the man who would be known thereafter as 'The Great Emancipator' glanced at his effort, looked up, smiled, and cheerfully declared: 'That will do.'"
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Abraham Lincoln is often celebrated as the Great emancipator for his role in ending slavery in the United States.
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The emancipator fought tirelessly for the rights of those who were oppressed and denied their freedoms.
Synonyms
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A person who frees people from slavery or prison
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A person who supports ending slavery, especially in the 18th and 19th centuries
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A person who works for the freedom and rights of others often for groups facing oppression
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A person who works to end slavery
A person who frees people from slavery
Antonyms
How Freeing
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Surface Forms
Morphology
emancipator = emancipate (transparent) = emancipate + or
The agentive suffix '-or' transparently forms 'a person who emancipates' from the verb 'emancipate'.
Etymology
Emancipator comes from old Latin parts meaning 'out' (ex-) and 'hand' (manus), as in the word manual for work done by hand, so it once meant 'to take someone out of another person's hand'. That's why an emancipator is a person who frees others from control.