Definition of "liberation" []

• The act of liberating or the state of being liberated. (noun)
• The act or process of trying to achieve equal rights and status. (noun)

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• "This meaning, from our Occidental viewpoint, is best translated in the term liberation, signifying to be set free from the limitations of sense, and of self-consciousness, and to have glimpsed the larger area of consciousness, that takes in the very cosmos."
• "Over 95 per cent of the borrowers are women, and their liberation is a major concern for Yunus and Grameen Bank."
• "We're also told that it is meant to mark the two-year anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, what they call the liberation of Baghdad."