manumit
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Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin manūmittere, from pre-Classical Latin manū ēmittere (literally “send out from one’s hand”).
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manumit (third-person singular simple present manumits, present participle manumitting, simple past and past participle manumitted)
- To release from slavery, to free.
- Synonyms: emancipate, liberate
- 1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, , published 1612, →OCLC; reprinted Menston, Yorkshire: The Scolar Press, 1970, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii:
- […] 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.
- 1842 February 22, Abraham Lincoln, “Address Before the Springfield Washingtonian Temperance Society”, in Arthur Brooks Lapsley, editor, The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln:
- 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.
- 1867, John Lord, The Old Roman World: the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization:
- 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.
- 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.
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