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liberation
CIDE DICTIONARY
liberation, n. [L. liberatio: cf. F. libération. Cf. Livraison.].
The act of liberating or the state of being liberated. [1913 Webster]
"This mode of analysis requires perfect liberation from all prejudged system." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
liberation, n. the act or an instance of liberating; the state of being liberated.
Idiom
liberation theology a theory which interprets liberation from social, political, and economic oppression as an anticipation of ultimate salvation.
Derivative
liberationist n.
Etymology
ME f. L liberatio f. liberare: see LIBERATE
THESAURUS
liberation
abstraction, annexation, appropriation, boosting, break, breakout, broad-mindedness, conversion, conveyance, deliverance, delivery, emancipation, embezzlement, emergence, enfranchisement, enfranchising, escape, escapism, evasion, extrication, filching, flight, fraud, free thought, freeing, freethinking, getaway, graft, issuance, issue, jailbreak, latitudinarianism, leak, leakage, liberalism, libertarianism, libertinism, lifesaving, lifting, loosing, open-mindedness, outlet, pilferage, pilfering, pinching, poaching, prisonbreak, ransom, recovery, redemption, release, releasing, rescue, rescuing, retrieval, riddance, salvage, salvation, saving, scrounging, setting-free, shoplifting, snatching, sneak thievery, snitching, stealage, stealing, swindle, swiping, theft, thievery, thieving, tolerance, toleration, unbigotedness, unchaining, unfettering, unshackling, ventROGET THESAURUS
liberation
Escape
N escape, scape, avolation, elopement, flight, evasion, retreat, narrow escape, hairbreadth escape, close call, come off, impunity, loophole, path, refuse, vent, vent peg, safety valve, drawbridge, fire escape, reprieve, liberation, refugee, escaping, escaped, stolen away, fled, the bird has flown the coop.Deliverance
N deliverance, extrication, rescue, reprieve, reprieval, respite, liberation, emancipation, redemption, salvation, riddance, gaol delivery, redeemableness, saved, extricable, redeemable, rescuable, Int, to the rescue!.Liberation
N liberation, disengagement, release, enlargement, emancipation, disenthrallment, disenthralment, affranchisement, enfranchisement, manumission, discharge, dismissal, deliverance, redemption, extrication, acquittance, absolution, acquittal, escape, liberated, out of harness, Int, unhand me!, let me go!.For further exploring for "liberation" in Webster Dictionary Online