Hypertext Webster Gateway: "manumission"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Manumission \Man`u*mis"sion\, n. [L. manumissio: cf. F.
manumission. See {Manumit}.]
The act of manumitting, or of liberating a slave from
bondage. ``Given to slaves at their manumission.''
--Arbuthnot.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
manumission
n : the formal act of freeing from slavery; "he believed in the
manumission of the slaves"
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