Manumit

Quick meaning: Manumit is a verb meaning (transitive) To release from slavery, to free.

Meaning

(transitive) To release from slavery, to free.

Example Sentences

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.

[…]Lungs, I will manumit thee from the Fornace; / I will reſtore thee thy complexion, Puffe, / Lost in the embers; and repayre this brayne, / Hurt with the fume o'the Mettalls.

Turn now to the temperance revolution. In it we shall find a stronger bondage broken, a viler slavery manumitted, a greater tyrant deposed; in it, more of want supplied, more disease healed, more sorrow assuaged.

Persons taken in war were considered at the absolute control of their captors, and were therefore, de facto, slaves; and the children of a female slave followed the condition of their mother, and belonged to her master. But masters could manumit their slaves, who thus became Roman citizens, with some restrictions.

Word Forms

• manumits
• manumitting
• manumitted

Synonyms for manumit

Depending on context, synonyms include emancipate, enfranchise, liberate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include emancipate, release, liberate, manumise, unimprison, mukt.

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