Word Meanings - MANUMISSION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of manumitting, or of liberating a slave from bondage. "Given to slaves at their manumission." Arbuthnot.

Related words: (words related to MANUMISSION)

• LIBERATORY
  Tending, or serving, to liberate.
• BONDAGE
  Villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the meanest services for the owner. Syn. -- Thralldom; bond service; imprisonment. (more info) 1. The state of being bound; condition of being under restraint; restraint of personal liberty
• SLAVEOCRACY
  See SLAVOCRACY
• SLAVEHOLDING
  Holding persons in slavery.
• LIBERATION
  The act of liberating or the state of being liberated. This mode of analysis requires perfect liberation from all prejudged system. Pownall.
• LIBERATOR
  One who, or that which, liberates; a deliverer.
• SLAVERY
  1. The condition of a slave; the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another. Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, slavery, said I, still thou art a bitter draught! Sterne. I wish, from my soul, that the legislature of this
• GIVEN
  p. p. & a. from Give, v.
• SLAVEBORN
  Born in slavery.
• BONDAGER
  A field worker, esp. a woman who works in the field.
• SLAVERER
  A driveler; an idiot.
• MANUMISSION
  The act of manumitting, or of liberating a slave from bondage. "Given to slaves at their manumission." Arbuthnot.
• SLAVEHOLDER
  One who holds slaves.
• LIBERATE
  To release from restraint or bondage; to set at liberty; to free; to manumit; to disengage; as, to liberate a slave or prisoner; to liberate the mind from prejudice; to liberate gases. Syn. -- To deliver; free; release. See Deliver.
• SLAVERING
  Drooling; defiling with saliva. -- Slav"er*ing*ly, adv.
• SLAVER
  1. A vessel engaged in the slave trade; a slave ship. 2. A person engaged in the purchase and sale of slaves; a slave merchant, or slave trader. The slaver's hand was on the latch, He seemed in haste to go. Longfellow.
• SLAVEY
  A maidservant.
• SLAVE
  slaf, all fr. G. sklave, MHG. also slave, from the national name of the Slavonians, or Sclavonians , who were 1. A person who is held in bondage to another; one who is wholly subject to the will of another; one who is held as a chattel; one who
• THEIR
  The possessive case of the personal pronoun they; as, their houses; their country. Note: The possessive takes the form theirs (theirs is best cultivated. Nothing but the name of zeal appears 'Twixt our best actions and the worst of theirs. Denham.
• ENSLAVEMENT
  The act of reducing to slavery; state of being enslaved; bondage; servitude. A fresh enslavement to their enemies. South.
• ENSLAVEDNESS
  State of being enslaved.
• VAGABONDAGE
  The condition of a vagabond; a state or habit of wandering about in idleness; vagrancy.
• DELIBERATELY
  With careful consideration, or deliberation; circumspectly; warily; not hastily or rashly; slowly; as, a purpose deliberately formed.
• REENSLAVE
  To enslave again.
• DELIBERATOR
  One who deliberates.
• DELIBERATE
  1. Weighing facts and arguments with a view a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; circumspect; slow in determining; -- applied to persons; as, a deliberate judge or counselor. "These deliberate fools."
• WHITE SLAVE
  A woman held in involuntary confinement for purposes of prostitution; loosely, any woman forced into unwilling prostitution.
• FORGIVENESS
  1. The act of forgiving; the state of being forgiven; as, the forgiveness of sin or of injuries. To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses. Dan. ix. 9. In whom we have . . . the forgiveness of sin. Eph. i. 7. 2. Disposition to pardon;
• ANTISLAVERY
  Opposed to slavery. -- n.
• DISENSLAVE
  To free from bondage or slavery; to disenthrall. He shall disenslave and redeem his soul. South.
• INDELIBERATE
  Done without deliberation; unpremeditated. -- In`de*lib"er*ate*ly, adv.
• WHITE SLAVER
  A person engaged in procuring or holding a woman or women for unwilling prostitution.