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adj
Of or relating to manumission (“release from slavery or other legally sanctioned servitude”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
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adj
Freeing, liberating.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, rare
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noun
A document having the effect of releasing someone from slavery or other legally sanctioned servitude.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
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History
Etymology tree English manumission Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English manumissive The adjective is derived from manumission + -ive (suffix meaning ‘of the nature of; tending to’ forming adjectives). Manumission is derived from Late Middle English manumissioun (“(uncountable) release by a feudal superior or slaveowner from servitude, freedom from servitude; (countable) an instance of this; document granting such freedom; (figurative) Jesus’s redemption of humankind”), from Anglo-Norman manumission and Middle French manumission, and from their etymon Latin manūmissiō (“emancipation of a slave, manumission”), from manūmiss- (the perfect passive participle stem of manūmittō (“to emancipate, free, release”)) + -iō (suffix forming abstract nouns from verbs); manūmittō is from manū (the ablative singular of manus (“hand”); further etymology uncertain, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh2- (“to beckon, signal”)) + mittō (“to discharge, release; to send”) (probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meyth2- (“to release; to send; etc.”)). The noun is derived from the adjective.
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