C15: from Latin manūmittere to release, from manū from one's hand + ēmittere to send away
Examples of 'manumitted' in a sentence
manumitted
They were often manumitted only upon their master's death.
Yosef, Koby 2013, 'The Term Mamlūk and Slave Status during the Mamluk Sultanate', Al-Qantara : Revista de Estudios Arabeshttp://al-qantara.revistas.csic.es/index.php/al-qantara/article/view/293/284. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)