manumit
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Etymology [edit]
From Latin manumittere, from pre-Classical Latin manu emittere, literally ‘send out from one’s hand’.
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /mænjʊˈmɪt/
Verb [edit]
manumit (third-person singular simple present manumits, present participle manumitting, simple past and past participle manumitted)
- 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.
- 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked, Arbor House Publishing Company (1985),
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Translations [edit]
to free one's slave
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