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Definition of Manumit
1. Verb. Free from slavery or servitude.
Generic synonyms: Liberate, Set Free
Derivative terms: Emancipation, Emancipative, Emancipator, Manumission, Manumitter
Definition of Manumit
1. v. t. To release from slavery; to liberate from personal bondage or servitude; to free, as a slave.
Definition of Manumit
1. Verb. To release from slavery, to free. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Manumit
1. to free from slavery [v -MITTED, -MITTING, -MITS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Manumit
Literary usage of Manumit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Synonymy: Or, An Attempt at Regulating the Choice of Words in by Hester Lynch Piozzi (1794)
"... TO SET FREE, TO manumit, OR DELIVER FROM SLAVERY. THESE words, though all
productive of the moft ..."
2. Precis of the Archives of the Cape of Good Hope by H. C. V. Leibbrandt, Jan van Riebeeck (1906)
"Heijning (Nicolaas); Merchant and Dispenser; wishes to manumit his slave, Dina
of Macassar; offers as sureties himself and the Junior Merchant and pay ..."
3. Chronological History of the West Indies by Southey, Thomas (1827)
"... in his mother previously to the young man's birth; from whence it was argued,
that Mrs. Whiston had no right to manumit either the mother or the boy. ..."
4. Precis of the Archives of the Cape of Good Hope: Requesten (memorials) 1715-1806 by Hendrik Carel Vos Leibbrandt, Cape of Good Hope (South Africa). Archives, South African Library (1906)
"Leander of the Coast of Coromandel ; free black ; \\ishes to manumit his slave.
Flora of Bengal ; offers the necessary security. v\o. 147. ..."
5. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1853)
"... law obliging the father to manumit ; — he could retain this power, if he chose,
during his whole life. When the apostles came, all the relations of life ..."
6. Imperatoris Iustiniani Institutionum libri quattuor by John Baron Moyle (1883)
"OF PERSONS UNABLE TO manumit, AND THE CAUSES OF THEIR INCAPACITY. In some cases
however manumission is not permitted ; for an owner who would defraud his ..."
7. The Bible and Slavery by Charles Elliott (1857)
""Every master may not manumit by will; for, if done with intent to defraud his
creditors, it is void; ..."
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