MANUMISSION Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

manumission

noun

ˌman-yə-ˈmi-shən

Definition of manumission

as in emancipation

the act of setting free from slavery the official manumission of the slaves came after the Civil War

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Recent Examples of manumission Those would include personal correspondence, sales receipts, deeds of manumission, court filings, certificates of freedom or wills bearing names and signatures. — Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 31 May 2026 Image The empire had sophisticated systems for tracking slave ownership and collecting various taxes, which amounted to 4 percent on slave sales and 5 percent on manumissions. — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025 That included allowing for the possibility of manumission following conversion to Catholicism on Spanish soil. — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2026 Accordingly, the state passed a 1788 law prohibiting emancipations of people over the age of 50 or incapable of providing for themselves, viewing such manumissions as cynical attempts to avoid supporting the elderly or infirm. — Carolyn Eastman, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for manumission

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Everything from the division of the Peaches and the Plums to Shamea’s tagline this season is a secret cry from Shamea to Porsha, begging for attention under the guise of her own emancipation.

— Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 29 June 2026
Love, passion and a longing for emancipation fill their biosynthetic hearts.

— Liza Lentini, SPIN, 26 June 2026

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Like their counterparts in the founding generation, most 19th century reformers had their own prejudices and their own ideas about whose liberation mattered most.

— Brian DeLay, Mercury News, 4 July 2026
Fifty years ago, the hijackers at Entebbe also cloaked themselves in the language of liberation.

— Anne Neuberger, The Atlantic, 3 July 2026

Definition of liberation

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