n
The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction.
n
The state of being abolished.
n
The act of freeing; enfranchisement.
v
To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
v
(idiomatic, Christianity) To experience or display a conversion or recommitment to Christianity or to undergo a related ritual, especially public confession of one's sins or weaknesses.
adj
Having the power or quality of conservation; conserving.
n
(obsolete) The act of conquering or subjugation in war.
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One who decriminalizes, or who is in favour of decriminalizing, something.
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(obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To withdraw, or cause to withdraw, from one's country; to banish.
n
The act of deporting or exiling, or the state of being deported; banishment; transportation.
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A person who has been uprooted.
n
The act of being dethroned; the state of having been dethroned or removed from a superior place in a hierarchy.
n
Explicit or implicit revocation of, or failure to grant, the right to vote, to a person or group of people.
adj
Relating to the disestablishment of privileges, especially of an established church.
n
The deprivation of the privileges and immunities of citizenship.
n
One who is dislocated; a displaced person.
n
One who is dispossessed.
n
(obsolete) A removal from the usual place of residence.
n
The act of setting free from the power of another, as from slavery, subjection, dependence, or controlling influence.
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A person who emancipates.
adj
Of or pertaining to emancipation or to an emancipator.
n
Alternative form of impressment [The act of seizing for public use; impressing into public service.]
n
(West Africa) Act or process of enstooling, or raising a chief to power.
n
The act by which something is enturbanned; an enturbanment.
n
A permission which a bishop grants to a priest to go out of his diocese.
v
(US, historical) Of an African-American: To leave a Southern state as part of a mass migration, especially the Exodus of 1879.
n
Obsolete form of exodus. [A sudden departure of a large number of people.]
n
One who performs an exorcism.
v
(transitive) To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.
n
One who offers in sacrifice.
v
(transitive) To cause to rise up in insurrection.
n
the destruction of an enemy's military potential before it can be used
adj
Of or pertaining to invasion; offensive.
adj
That serves to liberate, especially to free the mind to accept new ideas.
n
The act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
adj
Relating to, or aiding, liberation; liberatory.
n
(historical) In Ancient Rome, a legal formality for acquiring title to property by actual or by simulated purchase.
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Release from slavery or other legally sanctioned servitude; the giving of freedom; the act of manumitting.
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An emancipator from slavery, someone who manumits.
n
(international law) The principle that a person (particularly a refugee) should not be returned to an area (chiefly their country of origin) where they would face mistreatment.
v
(transitive, Ancient Greece, historical) To ban a person from a city for five or ten years through the procedure of ostracism.
n
(Roman Catholicism) An indulgence that remits all of a person’s sins, and thus the whole of their time in purgatory.
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Summary expulsion of asylum seekers, especially when violating the principle of nonrefoulement.
v
To refuse entry to a country and repatriate (an immigrant or asylum-seeker)
n
(archaic, uncountable) The forced relocation of a group of people; (countable) an instance of this.
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Alternative spelling of refoulement [(international law, uncountable) Rendition of a person to an area (chiefly their country of origin) where they will face mistreatment, for example, expulsion of refugees into a war zone; (countable) an instance of this.]
n
The act of remancipating.
n
One who resists, especially a person who fights against an occupying army.
adj
Seeking revenge or otherwise advocating retaliation, especially against a nation which has previously defeated and humiliated the revanchist party in war. Originally referred to the French indignation over losing Alsace-Lorraine to Germany in the Franco-Prussian War.
n
(theology) One who has lost faith; a heathen, nonbeliever, or apostate.
v
(transitive) To oppress (someone).
n
(informal) Synonym of undocumented immigrant
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