manumit

/,mænju'mit/

Thân thiện

The judge decided to manumit the enslaved person.

Definition

Verb: - To formally release someone from slavery or servitude; to grant freedom to an enslaved person.

Usage

• The verb "manumit" is used with a direct object (the person being freed). It is a formal and historical term, most commonly associated with legal acts of emancipation in the context of slavery.
• Example: The plantation owner decided to manumit his elderly servants in his will.
• Example: Many ancient Roman citizens would manumit their slaves as a reward for loyal service.

Advanced Usage

• Legal/Historical Context: The term is almost exclusively used in historical or legal discussions about slavery. The act of manumission was often documented in a legal deed.
  • Example: The court ordered the estate to manumit all individuals held in bondage under the disputed property.
• Figurative Use (Rare): In very rare, literary contexts, it can be used figuratively to mean "to liberate from any oppressive constraint."
  • Example: (Literary) He felt the therapy session manumitted him from the burdens of his past.

Variants and Related Words

• Manumission (noun): The act or process of manumitting; formal emancipation from slavery.
  • Example: The document recorded the manumission of the entire family.

Synonyms

• Emancipate: To set free, especially from legal, social, or political restrictions (a broader, more modern synonym).
• Free: The most general term for releasing from confinement or bondage.
• Liberate: To set free from a situation of oppression or imprisonment.
• Release: To allow to be free from a duty, constraint, or confinement.

Antonyms

• Enslave: To make someone a slave.
• Subjugate: To bring under domination or control, especially by conquest.

Học thuật

Verb

1. free from slavery or servitude

Từ đồng nghĩa

• emancipate