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say it: mah-noo-MISH-uhn
manumission is a noun meaning "the formal act of freeing from slavery". It carries one recorded sense.
the formal act of freeing from slavery
“he believed in the manumission of the slaves”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for manumission come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.