manumit — to release from slavery or bondage; to free from servitude
Part of speech: VERB
Definition: to release from slavery or bondage; to free from servitude
Pronunciation (IPA): /ˌmænjuˈmɪt/
Korean meaning: 노예를 해방시키다, 속박에서 자유롭게 하다
Korean pronunciation: 매뉴**밋**
Example Sentences
- The kind master decided to manumit his favorite cook, who made the world's worst soup but told the best jokes.
- Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation helped manumit millions of enslaved people.
- She promised to manumit all her digital assistants once artificial intelligence gained consciousness.
manumit
VERB//ˌmænjuˈmɪt//
to release from slavery or bondage; to free from servitude
a well-dressed plantation owner hands an official document to a kneeling enslaved person while gesturing upward with his other hand. The enslaved person looks up with tears of joy as he receives the freedom papers with trembling hands. Heavy iron shackles lie broken and discarded on the ground beside them. The formerly enslaved man slowly rises to his feet as the weight of bondage lifts from his shoulders. Other enslaved people gather in the background, watching this moment of liberation with hope and wonder. A sense of profound transformation fills the air as chains are replaced by dignity. someone being released from slavery and freed from servitude
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Origin
From Latin manumittere, literally meaning 'to send from the hand.' This referred to the Roman legal ceremony where a master would formally release a slave by letting go of their hand.
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“The kind master decided to manumit his favorite cook, who made the world's worst soup but told the best jokes.”
“Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation helped manumit millions of enslaved people.”
“She promised to manumit all her digital assistants once artificial intelligence gained consciousness.”
“The Roman law allowed masters to manumit slaves through various formal procedures.”
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