manumit. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

manumit

SYLLABICATION:	man·u·mit
PRONUNCIATION:	mny-mt
TRANSITIVE VERB:	Inflected forms: man·u·mit·ted, man·u·mit·ting, man·u·mits To free from slavery or bondage; emancipate.
ETYMOLOGY:	Middle English manumitten, from Old French manumitter, from Latin manmittere : man, ablative of manus, hand; see man-² in Appendix I + mittere, to send from.
OTHER FORMS:	manu·mission (-mshn) —NOUN manu·mitter —NOUN


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