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Liberation

noun

The act of liberating someone or something. Synonyms: freeing, release.

The attempt to achieve equal rights or status.

The termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart). Synonyms: discharge, dismissal, dismission, firing, release, sack, sacking.

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"Liberation" Quotes from Famous Books

... She was frightened at the ravages thought had made in that noble mind, absorbed in searching for the solution of a problem that was perhaps insoluble. Balthazar, who saw and knew nothing outside of his furnaces, seemed not to realize the liberation of ...

— The Alkahest • Honore de Balzac

... Britain and America from these terrible popular comitia, in which, as Montesquieu has truly said, the mobs of the people became the convulsions of an empire; and which tore in pieces Poland in modern, as it had done Rome in ancient times. But does not the real evil exist, despite this liberation from the actual tumult, in the representative government of a great empire, as much as in the stormy comitia of an overgrown republic? It is not the mere strife in the streets, and shedding of blood in civil warfare, bad as it is, and truly as the "bellum ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 • Various

... Christendom was already evolving rapidly into a pure peasant proprietorship; and it will be long before industrialism evolves by itself into anything so equal or so free. Above all, there appears notably that universal mark of the medieval movement; the voluntary liberation of slaves. But we may willingly allow that something of the earlier success of all this was due to the personal qualities of the first knights fresh from the West; and especially to the personal justice ...

— The New Jerusalem • G. K. Chesterton

... my name in connection with it. Tell them that your design was to rob the house; they will send you to jail, and no matter how many charges may be brought against you, I have money and influence sufficient to procure your liberation. Now, my good fellow, do ...

— Venus in Boston; - A Romance of City Life • George Thompson

... the journal did not exist for long. The greater number of Garrison's fellow-workers in the movement for the liberation of the slaves, fearing that the too radical programme of the journal, the NON-RESISTANT, might keep people away from the practical work of negro-emancipation, gave up the profession of the principle of non-resistance as it had been expressed in the declaration, ...

— The Kingdom of God is within you • Leo Tolstoy

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