Emancipate vs Purge - What's the difference?
emancipate | purge |
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
* A. W. Ward
An act of .
(medicine) An evacuation of the bowels or a vomiting.
A cleansing of pipes.
A forcible removal of people, for example, from political activity.
That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.
to clean thoroughly; to cleanse; to rid of impurities
(religion) to free from sin, guilt, or the burden or responsibility of misdeeds
To remove by cleansing; to wash away.
* Bible, Psalms lxxix. 9
* Addison
(medicine) to void (the bowels); to vomit.
(medicine) To operate on (somebody) as a cathartic, or in a similar manner.
(legal) to clear of a charge, suspicion, or imputation
To clarify; to clear the dregs from (liquor).
To become pure, as by clarification.
To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.
As verbs the difference between emancipate and purge
is that emancipate is to set free from the power of another; to liberate; as while purge is to clean thoroughly; to cleanse; to rid of impurities.As an adjective emancipate
is freed; set at liberty.As a noun purge is
an act of purging.emancipate
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(emancipat)- From how many troublesome and slavish impertinences he had emancipated and freed himself.
- to emancipate the human conscience
Synonyms
* liberate * manumitDerived terms
* emancipatory * emancipatrixExternal links
* * ----purge
English
(wikipedia purge)Noun
(en noun)- Stalin liked to ensure that his purges were not reversible.
- (Arbuthnot)
Verb
(purg)- Purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.
- We'll join our cares to purge away / Our country's crimes.