liberation

Borrowed from Middle French libération, and from Latin liberatio, liberationem (“a freeing”), from liberare past participle liberatus (“set free”); see liberate.

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

liberation (countable and uncountable, plural liberations)

1. The act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
2. The achievement of equal rights and status.

• emancipation, independence

• enslavement, oppression

• animal liberation
• Black liberation
• gay liberation
• male liberation
• queer liberation
• women's liberation

• liberate

• liberation at OneLook Dictionary Search
• liberation in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• "liberation" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 181.
• liberation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• “liberation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

• libationer