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OP "In a land of manumitted peasants the primary trait of the peasant is bound to show itself now and then; as Wendell Phillips once said, “more than any other people, we Americans are afraid of one another”— that is, afraid of isolation, of derision, of all the consequences of singularity. "
manumit
SYLLABICATION: man·u·mit
PRONUNCIATION: AUDIO: mny-mt KEY
TRANSITIVE VERB: Inflected forms: man·u·mit·ted, man·u·mit·ting, man·u·mits
To free from slavery or bondage; emancipate.
ETYMOLOGY: Middle English manumitten, from Old French manumitter, from Latin manmittere : man, ablative of manus, hand; see man-2 in Appendix I + mittere, to send from.
OTHER FORMS: manu·mission (-mshn) —NOUN
manu·mitter —NOUN
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted manumitted wwh 01/08/04 02:33 PM Re: manumitted Bingley 01/09/04 01:44 AM Re: manumitted dxb 01/09/04 11:22 AM
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