Manumit

Pronunciation

• IPA: /mænjʊˈmɪt/

Origin

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

Full definition of manumit

Verb

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.

Synonyms

• emancipate
• liberate

Derived terms

• manumitter

Related terms

• manumission