unemancipable

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   incapable of being emancipated, freed, or released from control

   The speaker rejected the idea that any person could be an unemancipable slave.

Formed from un- ('not') + emancipable. Emancipate comes from Latin emancipare, originally a legal act of releasing a person from a household head's authority; the rare adjective means 'unable to be released.'

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