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Emanate vs Emancipate - What's the difference?

emanate | emancipate |

As verbs the difference between emanate and emancipate

is that emanate is to come from a source; issue from while emancipate is to set free from the power of another; to liberate; as.

As an adjective emancipate is

freed; set at liberty.

emanate

English

Verb

(emanat)
  • To come from a source; issue from.
  • Fragrance emanates from flowers.
  • * De Quincey
  • that subsisting from of government from which all special laws emanate
  • (rare) To send or give out; manifest.
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    emancipate

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Verb

    (emancipat)
  • To set free from the power of another; to liberate; as:
  • # To set free, as a minor from a parent; as, a father may emancipate a child.
  • # To set free from bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit; as, to emancipate a slave, or a country.
  • To free from any controlling influence, especially from anything which exerts undue or evil influence; as, to emancipate one from prejudices or error.
  • * Evelyn
  • From how many troublesome and slavish impertinences he had emancipated and freed himself.
  • * A. W. Ward
  • to emancipate the human conscience

    Synonyms

    * liberate * manumit

    Derived terms

    * emancipatory * emancipatrix

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Freed; set at liberty.