manumission
11manumission — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French, from Latin manumission , manumissio, from manumittere Date: 15th century the act or process of manumitting; especially formal emancipation from slavery …
12MANUMISSION — s. f. Action d affranchir les esclaves et autres personnes de condition serve. La manumission, qui était en usage chez les anciens Romains, avait passé dans le droit féodal …
13manumission — /man yeuh mish euhn/, n. the act of manumitting. [1375 1425; late ME < L manumission (s. of manumissio). See MANUMIT, MISSION] * * * …
14manumission — noun the formal act of freeing from slavery (Freq. 1) he believed in the manumission of the slaves • Derivationally related forms: ↑manumit • Hypernyms: ↑liberation, ↑release, ↑freeing …
15Manumission Intelligencier — The Manumission Intelligencier was an abolitionist newspaper founded by Elihu Embree, a Quaker, in 1819. It was later renamed The Emancipator and then sold to another Quaker, Benjamin Lundy, and renamed The Genius of Universal Emancipation.… …
16MANUMISSION — n. f. T. d’Antiquité romaine et de Féodalité Action d’affranchir un esclave ou un serf …
17manumission — noun /mænjʊˈmɪʃən/ release from slavery, freedom, the act of manumitting See Also: manumitter, manumittor, manumissive …
18manumission — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The state of not being in confinement or servitude: emancipation, freedom, liberation, liberty. See FREE …
19manumission — mænjÉ™ mɪʃn / jÊŠ m n. act of freeing a slave from bondage, act of emancipating …
20manumission — n. Emancipation, enfranchisement, liberation, deliverance, release, act of freeing a slave from bondage …