different between manumission vs liberation

English

Etymology

From the past participle stem of Latin man?mitt? (English manumit).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mænj??m???n/

Noun

manumission (countable and uncountable, plural manumissions)

1. Release from slavery or other legally sanctioned servitude; the giving of freedom; the act of manumitting.
   • 1823, James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers, ch. 4:

     The manumission of the slaves in New York has been gradual.

   • 1881, Grant Allen, Anglo-Saxon Britain, ch. 19:

     In the west, and especially in Cornwall, the names of the serfs were mainly Celtic,—Griffith, Modred, Riol, and so forth,—as may be seen from the list of manumissions preserved in a mass-book at St. Petroc's, or Padstow.

   • 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:

     The more innocent dreamed of a manumission kindly bestowed by the new Emperor as one of a number of acts of justice and clemency proper to a new reign.

   • 2012 Nov. 30, Paul Finkelman, "The Real Thomas Jefferson: The Monster of Monticello," New York Times (retrieved 3 Aug 2015):

     Rather than encouraging his countrymen to liberate their slaves, he opposed both private manumission and public emancipation.

Synonyms

• emancipation, liberation

Related terms

Translations

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French libération, and from Latin liberatio, liberationem (“a freeing”), from liberare past participle liberatus (“set free”); see liberate.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

liberation (countable and uncountable, plural liberations)

1. The act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
2. The process of striving to achieve equal rights and status.

Derived terms

• animal liberation
• women's liberation

Related terms

• liberate

Translations

References

• liberation at OneLook Dictionary Search
• liberation in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• "liberation" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 181.
• liberation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• liberation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• libationer