Complete Definition of "manumit"

English

Etymology
Latin manumittere, from pre-Classical Latin manu emittere literally �send out from one�s hand�.

Pronunciation
IPA: /mænj�'mɪt/

Verb
en-verb|manumit|t|ed

  1. 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.

Related terms
manumission

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