Definition of "emancipation"

emancipation

/ɪˌmæn.səˈpeɪ.ʃən/

noun
usually uncountable, plural emancipations
1. The act of setting free from the power of another, as from slavery, subjection, dependence, or controlling influence.
  Quotations
  Ireland, last year, was to be paradise, if that Peri, emancipation, was but sent there; now it is a wretched, degraded, oppressed country, unless the Union be dissolved! What ever will it be the year after? So much for any certainty of right in this world!
  1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], page 308
2. The state of being thus set free; liberation (used, for example, of slaves from bondage, of a person from prejudices, of the mind from superstition, of a nation from tyranny or subjugation).