manumit

From Latin manumittere, from pre-Classical Latin manu emittere, literally ‘send out from one’s hand’.

• IPA^(key): /mænjʊˈmɪt/

manumit (third-person singular simple present manumits, present participle manumitting, simple past and past participle manumitted)

1. To release from slavery, to free.
   • 1985 Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked, Arbor House Publishing:

     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.

• emancipate
• liberate

• manumission
• manumitter

• mission