Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
the formal act of freeing from slavery;
- Example: "he believed in the manumission of the slaves"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
manumission
n 1: the formal act of freeing from slavery; "he believed in the
manumission of the slaves"
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):
MANUMISSION, contracts. The agreement by which the owner or master of a
slave sets him free and at liberty; the written instrument which contains
this agreement is also called a manumission.
2. In the civil law it was different from emancipation, which, properly
speaking, was applied to the liberation of children from paternal power.
Inst. liv. 1, t. 5 & 12; Co. Litt. 137, a; Dane's Ab. h.t.