emancipation

Main Entry:
salvation [sal-vey-shuhn]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: rescue, saving
Synonyms: conservancy, conservation, deliverance, emancipation, escape, exemption, extrication, keeping, liberation, lifeline, pardon, preserval, preservation, redemption, release, reprieve, restoration, safekeeping, sustentation
Antonyms: endangerment, harm, hurt, injury, loss, waste
Related Words
Main Entry: liberty
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
absolute, adespotic, allodial, anarchical, at ease, at large, at one's ease, autogenous, autonomous, discretionary, exempt, free, free and easy, free as air, freeborn, freed, freehold, going a begging, gratis, in full swing, independent, irrepressible, lax, left alone, left to oneself, licensed, loose, out of harness, quite at home, rampant, reinless, relaxed, remiss, scot, spontaneous, unassailed, unauthorized, unbiased, unbound, unbridled, unbuttoned, uncaught, unchained, unchecked, unclaimed, uncompelled, unconditional, unconfined, unconstrained, uncontrolled, uncurbed, unenslaved, unenthralled, unfettered, unforced, ungoverned, unhindered, unlimited, unmuzzled, unobstructed, unprevented, unreined, unrestrained, unrestricted, unshackled, unsubject, untrammeled, unvanquished, wanton, weak
Main Entry: rescue
Part of Speech: noun, verb
Related
Adjectives:
bailed out, expendible, extricable, reclaimed, redeemable, rescuable, retrieved, salvaged, saved, soterial
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Deliverance.
Category: 2. Subservience to ends; contingent subservience
Synonyms:
-nouns
deliverance, extrication, rescue; reprieve, reprieval; respite; liberation; emancipation; redemption, salvation; riddance; gaol delivery; redeemableness.
-verbs
deliver, extricate, rescue, save, emancipate, redeem, ransom; bring off, bring through; tirer d'affaire, get the wheel out of the rut, snatch from the jaws of death, come to the rescue; rid; retrieve (restore); be rid of, get rid of.
-adjectives
saved, extricable, redeemable, rescuable.
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Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Freedom.
Synonyms:
-nouns
freedom, liberty, independence; license (permission); facility., scope, range, latitude, play; free play, full play, free scope, full scope; free stage and no favor; swing, full swing, elbowroom, margin, rope, wide berth; Liberty Hall., franchise, denization; free man, freed man, livery man; denizen., autonomy, self-government, liberalism, free trade; noninterference; Monroe Doctrine [U.S.]., immunity, exemption; emancipation (liberation); enfranchisement, affranchisement., free land, freehold; allodium; frankalmoigne, mortmain., bushwhacker; freelance, free thinker, free trader; independent.
-verbs
be free; have scope, have the run of, have one's own way, have a will of one's own, have one's fling; do what one likes, do what one wishes, do what one pleases, do what one chooses; go at large, feel at home, paddle one's own canoe; stand on one's legs, stand on one's rights; shift for oneself., take a liberty; make free with, make oneself quite at home; use a freedom; take leave, take French leave., set free (liberate); give a loose to (permit); allow scope to, give scope to; give a horse his head., make free of; give the freedom of, give the franchise; enfranchise, affranchise., laisser faire, laisser aller; live and let live; leave to oneself; leave alone, let alone.
-adjectives
free, free as air; out of harness, independent, at large, loose, scot-free; left alone, left to oneself., in full swing; uncaught, unconstrained, unbuttoned, unconfined, unrestrained, unchecked, unprevented, unhindered, unobstructed, unbound, uncontrolled, untrammeled., unsubject, ungoverned, unenslaved, unenthralled, unchained, unshackled, unfettered, unreined, unbridled, uncurbed, unmuzzled., unrestricted, unlimited, unconditional; absolute; discretionary (optional)., unassailed, unforced, uncompelled., unbiassed, spontaneous., free and easy; at ease, at one's ease; degage, quite at home; wanton, rampant, irrepressible, unvanquished.
-adverbs
-phrases
ubi libertas ibi patria.
Antonyms: subjection
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Concept: Liberation.
Synonyms:
-nouns
liberation, disengagement, release, enlargement, emancipation; disenthrallment, disenthralment; affranchisement, enfranchisement; manumission; discharge, dismissal., deliverance; redemption, extrication, acquittance, absolution; acquittal; escape.
-verbs
liberate, free; set free, set clear, set at liberty; render free, emancipate, release; enfranchise, affranchise; manumit; enlarge; disband, discharge, disenthrall, disenthral, dismiss; let go, let loose, let out, let slip; cast adrift, turn adrift; deliver; absolve (acquit)., unfetter, untie [more]; loose (disjoin); loosen, relax; unbolt, unbar, unclose, uncork, unclog, unhand, unbind, unchain, unharness; disengage, disentangle; clear, extricate, unloose., gain one's liberty, obtain one's liberty, acquire one's liberty [more]; get rid of, get clear of; deliver oneself from; shake off the yoke, slip the collar; break loose, break prison; tear asunder one's bonds, cast off trammels; escape.
-adjectives
liberated; out of harness (free).
Antonyms: restraint
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Concept: Right.
Category: 1. Moral obligations
Synonyms:
-nouns
right; what ought to be, what should be; fitness; summum jus., justice, equity; equitableness; propriety; fair play, impartiality, measure for measure, give and take, lex talionis., Astraea, Nemesis, Themis., scales of justice, evenhanded justice, karma; suum cuique; clear stage, fair field and no favor., morals (duty); law; honor (probity); virtue.
-verbs
be right; stand to reason., see justice done, see one righted, see fair play; do justice to; recompense (reward); bold the scales even, give and take; serve one right, put the saddle on the right horse; give every one his due, give the devil his due; audire alteram partem., deserve (be entitled to).
-adjectives
right, good; just, reasonable; fit; equal, equable, equatable; evenhanded, fair., legitimate, justifiable, rightful; as it should be, as it ought to be; lawful (permitted), (legal) [more]. deserved [more].
-adverbs
rightly; au-bon droit, au bon droit, in justice, in equity, in reason., without distinction of persons, without regard to persons, without respect to persons; upon even terms.
-phrases
Dieu et mon droit; "in equal scale weighing delight and dole" [Hamlet]; justitia cuum cuique distribuit [Cicero]; justititiae soror incorrupta fides; justitia virtutem
Antonyms: wrong
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