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- Latin · borrowed fromliberatio, liberationem“a freeing”
- Middle French · borrowed fromlibération
- English todayliberation
Borrowed from Middle French libération, and from Latin liberatio, liberationem (“a freeing”), from liberare past participle liberatus (“set free”); see liberate. By surface analysis, liberate + -ion.
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