manumission

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From Middle English manumissioun, from Middle French manumission and its etymon Latin manūmissiō.

'Gradual manumission, Mr. Green,' that's what Colonel Anderson said, 'with colonization in Africa if possible. — The Long Roll, Mary Johnston
“I’ll be hanged if I do.” But she could not talk freely about love, she found, for all that manumission. — Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story, H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Although he obliged persons of fortune, both male and female, to give up their slaves, and they received their manumission at once, yet he kept them together under their own standard, unmixed with soldiers who were better born, and armed likewise after different fashion. — The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete, Suetonius

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