manumit
/ˌmænjəˈmɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.32 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…]Lungs, I will manumit thee from the Fornace; / I will reſtore thee thy complexion, Puffe, / Lost in the embers; and repayre this brayne, / Hurt with the fume o'the Mettalls."
- "Turn now to the temperance revolution. In it we shall find a stronger bondage broken, a viler slavery manumitted, a greater tyrant deposed; in it, more of want supplied, more disease healed, more sorrow assuaged."
- "Persons taken in war were considered at the absolute control of their captors, and were therefore, de facto, slaves; and the children of a female slave followed the condition of their mother, and belonged to her master. But masters could manumit their slaves, who thus became Roman citizens, with some restrictions."
- "Ruth wept much but Sara set her beauty to a fierce grimness which, even when, as you shall hear later, she was manumitted, she never entirely lost."
Etymology
From Middle English manumitten, from Latin manūmittere, from pre-Classical Latin manū ēmittere (literally “send out from one’s hand”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌmænjəˈmɪt/
- British English: /ˌmænjʊˈmɪt/