noun · uncountable · rare

manumission

man·u·miss·ion

Freilassung

Release from slavery or other legally sanctioned servitudeRelease from slavery or other legally sanctioned servitude; the giving of freedom; (countable) an instance of this; an act of manumitting.

UK/ˌmænjʊˈmɪʃn̩/US/ˌmænjəˈmɪʃən/

Meaning

1 senses

(historical, uncountable)Release from slavery or other legally sanctioned servitude; the giving of freedom; (countable) an instance of this; an act of manumitting.
Freilassung

More definitions

the formal act of freeing from slavery

Translations

6 languages

Deutsch

By meaning 1

release from slavery or other legally sanctioned servitude; an instance of this:

Origin

From Late Middle English manumissioun (“(uncountable) release by a feudal superior or slav

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 derived 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.”)).

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