Complete Definition of "manumission"

English
Etymology
From the past paticiple stem of Latin manumittere.

Pronunciation
IPA: /mænj�'mɪ��n/

Noun
manumission

  1. release from slavery, freedom, the act of manumitting

#:*1985: The more innocent dreamed of a manumission kindly bestowed by the new Emperor as one of a number of acts of justice and clemency proper to a new reign. � Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked

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