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manumit

Syllables: man·u·mit/ˌmænjʊˈmɪt/US/ˌmænjəˈmɪt/

manumit verb: to release (someone) from slavery; to free.

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Verb

manumit (third-person singular simple present manumits, present participle manumitting, simple past and past participle manumitted)

  1. (transitive) To release (someone) from slavery; to free.
    • […]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.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, Act II, scene ii
    • 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.1842 February 22, Abraham Lincoln, “Address Before the Springfield Washingtonian Temperance Society”, in Arthur Brooks Lapsley, editor, The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln

manumit meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malay

manumit in Tamil

அடிமைத்தனத்திலிருந்து விடுவி, விடுதலை செய், சுவாதீனம் அளி, உரிமை கொடு

manumit in Urdu

غلامی سے آزاد کرنا, نجات دینا

manumit in Malay

to release (someone) from slavery
memerdekakan

Examples of manumit in a sentence

  • But masters could manumit their slaves, who thus became Roman citizens, with some restrictions.1867, John Lord, The Old Roman World: the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization:
  • 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.1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked, Arbor House Publishing:

Synonyms of manumit

Forms of manumit

third-person singular presentmanumits
present participlemanumitting
past participlemanumitted
pastmanumitted

Origin of manumit

From Middle English manumitten, from Latin manūmittere, from pre-Classical Latin manū ēmittere (literally “send out from one’s hand”).

Words formed from manumit

Words that rhyme with manumit

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Questions about manumit

What does manumit mean?
Manumit means to release (someone) from slavery; to free.
What is manumit in Tamil?
Manumit in Tamil is அடிமைத்தனத்திலிருந்து விடுவி, விடுதலை செய், சுவாதீனம் அளி. See Manumit meaning in Tamil.
How do you use manumit in a sentence?
But masters could manumit their slaves, who thus became Roman citizens, with some restrictions.
What part of speech is manumit?
Manumit is a verb.
How do you pronounce manumit?
Manumit is pronounced /ˌmænjʊˈmɪt/ (UK).
What is the past tense of manumit?
The past tense of manumit is manumitted.

Words near manumit in the dictionary

  1. manumising
  2. manumission
  3. manumissions
  4. manumissive
  5. manumissives
  6. manumit
  7. manumits
  8. manumitted
  9. manumitter
  10. manumitters
  11. manumitting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: manumit (page history and authors); manumit (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); manumit (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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