liberation

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

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

liberation (countable and uncountable, plural liberations)

1. The act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
2. The process of striving to achieve equal rights and status.

• animal liberation
• women's liberation

• liberate

• liberation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• liberation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• "liberation" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 181.