Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Liberation from slavery, bondage, or restraint; a setting free; emancipation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of manumitting, or of liberating a slave from bondage.
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- noun
release fromslavery ,freedom , the act ofmanumitting
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the formal act of freeing from slavery
Etymologies
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Examples
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Some had technical meanings in the Middle Ages which had to be matched very carefully to how they were used in the text 'manumission' for instance, while some bring up thoughts of the Middle Ages that reflect nineteenth century romanticism in minds of most readers.
Even in a little thing gillpolack 2005
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The final examination was to him, no doubt, a kind of manumission which freed him from the last remnant of an oppressive bondage.
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888
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The departure of the Chaldeans was a kind of manumission of the Jews; but as their manumission of their bond-servants was recalled, so God revoked His manumission of them from the Chaldeans.
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They are his manumission papers, his freedom papers.
Eliza’s Freedom Road Jerdine Nolen 2011
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They are his manumission papers, his freedom papers.
Eliza’s Freedom Road Jerdine Nolen 2011
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They are his manumission papers, his freedom papers.
Eliza’s Freedom Road Jerdine Nolen 2011
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It isn ` t, it ` s selling the public ` s liberty back to it, inviting the public to pay for its own manumission concerning a copyright protected work.
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Other New England states, and Pennsylvania, began programs for gradual manumission that freed all children born of slave parents.
What Michele Bachmann Should Have Said About Slavery Thomas Fleming 2011
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There is a similar issue (and confusion) between manumission and laissez faire between the GPL and BSD licenses (as between CC-SA and CC0).
‘Rights are good …’ 2009
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They are his manumission papers, his freedom papers.
Eliza’s Freedom Road Jerdine Nolen 2011
jaime_d commented on the word manumission
from Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
March 6, 2011