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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

... enmity for Liubka was already gnawing him. All the more and more frequently various crafty plans of liberation came into his head. And some of them were to such an extent dishonest, that, after a few hours, or the next day, Lichonin squirmed ...

— Yama (The Pit) • Alexandra Kuprin

... goes through a cycle of birth, death, and rebirth (samsara) determined by one's positive or negative karma, or the consequences of one's actions. The goal of religious life is to learn to act so as to finally achieve liberation (moksha) of one's soul, ...

— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... believe, within less than eighteen mouths. He was powerful in prayer, and eloquent in exhortation. No one doubted his piety. He was prospectively liberated by a will. Carter, however, told him verbally, about this time, that he had made provisions in his will for his liberation, and that henceforth he could go where he chose, and do as he pleased. That he was a free man. What was the consequence? It was not long before a young lady belonging to a respectable family, was delivered of a mulatto child. On being questioned as to the child's paternity, ...

— A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin - or, An Essay on Slavery • A. Woodward

... they could feel the moral obligation that rests upon us not to go back on those boys, but to see the thing through, to see it through to the end and make good their redemption of the world. For nothing less depends upon this decision, nothing less than the liberation ...

— Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him • Joseph P. Tumulty

... His liberation was a tacit acknowledgment of his innocence of the charge of robbery; his encumberment with a debt caused by another's delinquencies was, we presume, a signification of his responsibility and some kind of punishment for his carelessness. Certainly it was ...

— The Wits and Beaux of Society - Volume 2 • Grace & Philip Wharton

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