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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Liberation from slavery, bondage, or restraint; a setting free; emancipation. [To complete the usual legal ceremony of manumission in ancient Rome, the master turned the slave around and released him from his hand before a magistrate.]

Wiktionary

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

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The act of manumitting, or of liberating a slave from bondage.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the formal act of freeing from slavery

Etymologies

  1. From the past participle stem of Latin manumittere. (Wiktionary)

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  • jaime_d from Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution Mar 6, 2011

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