manumit

Etymology

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

verb

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

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