manumit

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /mænjʊˈmɪt/

Verb

manumit (manumits, present participle manumitting; past and past participle manumitted)

1. To release from slavery, to free.
   • 1985 Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked, Arbor House Publishing:

     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.

Synonyms

• emancipate
• liberate

Related terms

• mission

Translations

• French: manumission, affranchissement
• German: freisprechen, freilassen
• Italian: emancipare, affrancare, liberare
• Russian: освобожда́ть
• Spanish: manumisión, liberación

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