Definition of "emancipating" [emancipating]

• Present participle of emancipate. (verb)

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• "He was more interested in emancipating the dispossessed than in celebrating the body or floating the signifier."
• "Carlyle is gratified (as he could not but be) with your "kindest regards" intercalated so mindfully into your wishes for my success in emancipating myself."
• "I do not enumerate his amazing successes in guiding the ship of state through as heavy a storm as ever beat and blew; in leading us to conclusions of the most wonderful character, as official commander-in chief of the power of the nation; in emancipating from the fetters of slavery an entire race of human beings."