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 In parts of the North, Black men served with promises of manumission, unevenly honored. — Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 1 Mar. 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 Meanwhile, the text suggests that Saulos, his accomplice, engaged in the fictitious sale and manumission of slaves while forging documents to cover their tracks. — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025 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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Marked by restless lines, these works depict a woman tentatively emerging from a cocoon in a ritual of transformation and emancipation.

— Tatiane de Assis, ARTnews.com, 21 Oct. 2026
Their courtroom victory in January 1856 led to one of the largest legal emancipations in US history, and certainly the largest anywhere west of Texas.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2026

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For the Kurdish liberation movement, reproduction is not a matter of individual rights like in Western feminism; rather the female body is a sovereign zone of political warfare.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Oct. 2026
Furani deemed the current state of affairs a natural consequence of Zionist nationalism, and invited Walzer to flee the sinking ship of Zionism and board the ark of Islam and Palestinian liberation.

— Jordi Graupera, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2026

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