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manumit
verb
(
manumit, t, ed
)
To release from slavery, to free.
1985,
Anthony Burgess,
Kingdom of the Wicked
, Arbor House Publishing Company (1985),
:
Ruth wept much but Sara set her beauty to a fierce grimness which, even when, as you shall hear later, she was
manumitted
, she never entirely lost.
Etymology:
Latin manumittere, from pre-Classical Latin manu emittere literally "send out from one"s hand".
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