emancipator
English
Etymology
From Late Latin emancipator, from Latin emancipare (“to emancipate”); see emancipate.
Noun
emancipator (plural emancipators)
- A person who emancipates.
- US President Abraham Lincoln was called the Great Emancipator after issuing the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.
Related terms
Further reading
- emancipator in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- emancipator in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Latin
Verb
ēmancipātor
References
- emancipator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- emancipator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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