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Definition of Emancipative
1. Adjective. Tending to set free.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Emancipative
Literary usage of Emancipative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. What is and what Might be: A Study of Education in General and Elementary by Edmond Gore Alexander Holmes (1912)
"Growth is, in its essence, an emancipative process; and though it sometimes
intensifies selfishness and widens the sphere of its activity, ..."
2. The Historical Magazine (1864)
"... revolution was préventive and conservative, not emancipative.— '•runly
emancipative a priori]—this "Even" «presses and owns a bitterness of unnatural ..."
3. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1864)
"... of the flagrant contradiction between the social theories of Christianity so
wide and so emancipative, and the domineering spirit of the clergy. ..."
4. Matthew Arnold: How to Know Him by Stuart Pratt Sherman (1917)
"... The emancipative ideas of the leaders of thought were rapidly reaching and
unsettling the masses. The drift was toward a secularized State, ..."
5. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1887)
"... disciplinary, restrictive, after the terrible disorders of the Dark Ages; the
latter was of a Liberal type,—emancipative, expansive, separatist. ..."
6. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1861)
"And as it becomes apparent to every one, that whoever wins or loses, the thing
has gone too far now to admit of any other than an emancipative solution ..."
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