manumit

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English

Etymology

From Latin manumittere, from pre-Classical Latin manu emittere, literally ‘send out from one’s hand’.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /mænjʊˈmɪt/

Verb

manumit (third-person singular simple present manumits, present participle manumitting, simple past and past participle manumitted)

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.

Translations

to free one's slave

Catalan: manumetre (ca) Finnish: vapauttaa (fi) French: manumission (fr) , affranchissement (fr)

Italian: manomissione (it) , affrancamento (it) Russian: освобождать (ru), отпускать (ru) Spanish: manumisión (es) , liberación (es)

Derived terms

• manumitter

Related terms

• manumission