manumit
/,mænju'mit/
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.
Verb
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free from slavery or servitude
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