Running is being used as a gerund working as a noun
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an idealistic philosophical and social movement which developed in New England around 1836 in reaction to rationalism. Influenced by romanticism, Platonism, and Kantian philosophy, it taught that divinity pervades all nature and humanity, and its members held progressive views on feminism and communal living. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were central figures.
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a system developed by Immanuel Kant, based on the idea that, in order to understand the nature of reality, one must first examine and analyse the reasoning process which governs the nature of experience.
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those are some of the definitions of transcendentalism
I’m not sure what the certain scenario is for this question, but I do know “liberation” means “free from imprisonment”. Perhaps the character has achieved something that has been holding them back from success, or cut off ties from someone who influences them negatively, or quite literally escaped something/someone that had captured them. I hope this helped.
Grim melancholy would be the answer
