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manumissive en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • (General-American) audio
  • /ˌmænjəˈmɪsɪv/ (General-American)
  • /ˌmænjʊˈmɪsɪv/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Etymology tree English manumission Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English manumissive The adjective is derived from manumission + -ive (suffix meaning ‘of the nature of; tending to’ forming adjectives). Manumission is derived from Late Middle English manumissioun (“(uncountable) release by a feudal superior or slaveowner from servitude, freedom from servitude; (countable) an instance of this; document granting such freedom; (figurative) Jesus’s redemption of humankind”), from Anglo-Norman manumission and Middle French manumission, and from their etymon Latin manūmissiō (“emancipation of a slave, manumission”), from manūmiss- (the perfect passive participle stem of manūmittō (“to emancipate, free, release”)) + -iō (suffix forming abstract nouns from verbs); manūmittō is from manū (the ablative singular of manus (“hand”); further etymology uncertain, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂- (“to beckon, signal”)) + mittō (“to discharge, release; to send”) (probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- (“to release; to send; etc.”)). The noun is derived from the adjective.

Meanings

  1. (rare) Of or relating to manumission (“release from slavery or other legally sanctioned servitude”).
    • If a right was to be acquired on the expiration of a certain period, it was acquired as soon as the last day of the period began; for instance, if the period was a year, the right was acquired immediately after midnight of the 364th day. This applied to acquisition of ownership by usucapion,[…], acquisition of testamentary capacity by attaining to years of puberty,[…], acquisition of manumissive capacity, […] 1871, Edward Poste, “De manu”, in Gaius, translated by Edward Poste, Gaii Institutionum iuris civilis commentarii quatuor: Or Elements of Roman Law […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, book I (De Personis), pages 81–82:
    • [W]e now have agreements signed by many chiefs—the Hadhramaut Sultans included—declaring that the slave trade is illegal, and the Hadhramaut Sultans have also agreed that any slave who asks for his freedom shall have it. […] In 1938 a Slavery (Regulation) Decree was enacted by His Highness the Sultan for the Qu'aiti State which gives statutory effect to the arrangements described above and contains other provisions of a manumissive character. 1942 June, Harold Ingrams, “The Future of the Hadhramaut”, in Arabia and the Isles, London: John Murray, […], published October 1943, →OCLC, page 350:
    • No Manumiſſive Corbon yet vvas knovvn / To Superſedeas a Son, for he / Still gave, yet ne'r eſteem'd himſelf as free; […] 1652, Daniel Cudmore, The History of Ioseph. A Poem, London: […] T. Warren […], →OCLC, page 67:
  2. (figuratively, rare) Freeing, liberating.
    • He wants employment. Give him plenty to do, and it resolves itself into a simple equation, leaving him no time for the manumissive luxury we have alluded to. 1846 April, “Irish Rivers.—No. III. Glintings of the Shannon. Chapter V.”, in The Dublin University Magazine, a Literary and Political Journal, volume XXVII, number CLX, Dublin: James MᶜGlashan, […]; London: W[illiam] S[omerville] Orr, →OCLC, page 432, column 1:
    • Many new interstitial locations are manumissive for diasporic peoples inhabiting or passing through such spaces, thereby enabling them to articulate various sorts of 'previously subjugated' or 'new experiential' identifications for themselves. 2004, Keith Hollinshead, “Tourism and Third Space Populations: The Restless Motion of Diaspora Peoples”, in Tim [Edward] Coles, Dallen J. Timothy, editors, Tourism, Diasporas and Space (Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism, and Mobility; 6), London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, part I (Diasporic Experiences of Tourism), page 44:
    • Elinor [Glyn] herself would have been both surprised and indignant […] if she could have seen that Three Weeks appealed to the same renascent and manumissive instinct that had also welcomed, for example, [Sigmund] Freud. She and Freud, of course, were poles apart in ideals, in methods, in aspirations; […] 1955 July, Anthony Glyn, chapter 33, in Elinor Glyn: A Biography, London: Hutchinson & Co., published August 1955, →OCLC, book 2 (The Best-selling Novelist 1892–1907), page 131:
    • [A] popular upsurge needs a committed light to lead a united movement. That leading light, whose value-laden vision guided the nation's manumissive march with selfless steps, was frail, firm Jaya Prakash Narain. 1990, V[aidyanathapuram] R[ama Iyer] Krishna Iyer, “Humans without Rights”, in Human Rights and Inhuman Wrongs, New Delhi: B. R. Paperback, BRPC (India), published 2001, →ISBN, pages 83–84:

Forms

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most manumissive Degree=Sup lexicographic
more manumissive Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Relateds

manumission · manumitter · manumittor · manumit

Translations (6)

fi manumissio- (of or relating to manumission) · fr d'affranchissement (of or relating to manumission) · fr de manumission (of or relating to manumission) · fi vapauttava (of or relating to manumission) · pl wyzwoleńczy (of or relating to manumission) · fr affranchissant (of or relating to manumission)

manumissive en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (General-American) audio
  • /ˌmænjəˈmɪsɪv/ (General-American)
  • /ˌmænjʊˈmɪsɪv/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Etymology tree English manumission Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English manumissive The adjective is derived from manumission + -ive (suffix meaning ‘of the nature of; tending to’ forming adjectives). Manumission is derived from Late Middle English manumissioun (“(uncountable) release by a feudal superior or slaveowner from servitude, freedom from servitude; (countable) an instance of this; document granting such freedom; (figurative) Jesus’s redemption of humankind”), from Anglo-Norman manumission and Middle French manumission, and from their etymon Latin manūmissiō (“emancipation of a slave, manumission”), from manūmiss- (the perfect passive participle stem of manūmittō (“to emancipate, free, release”)) + -iō (suffix forming abstract nouns from verbs); manūmittō is from manū (the ablative singular of manus (“hand”); further etymology uncertain, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂- (“to beckon, signal”)) + mittō (“to discharge, release; to send”) (probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- (“to release; to send; etc.”)). The noun is derived from the adjective.

Meanings

  1. (rare) A document having the effect of releasing someone from slavery or other legally sanctioned servitude.
    • [H]e [Thomas Cooper, 1st Baron Cooper of Culross] calls attention to the appointment of justiciars which indicate that the provision of royal judges was more adequate than had been supposed, to safe-conducts, grants of trading privileges, manumissives of serfs, orders for preserving the rights of the Crown and of the Civil Courts against possible trespass by the Church and the Church Courts or by feudal Courts. 1947, W[ilfrid] G[uild] Normand, “Book Reviews: ‘The Register of Brieves as Contained in the Ayr MS, the Bute MS, and Quoniam Attachiaments.’ Edited by the Rt. Hon. Lord Cooper, LL.D., Lord Justice-Clerk. Printed for the Stair Society by J. Skinner & Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. 1946.”, in Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, volume XX, London; New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co. […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 216:
    • The date of the above (hitherto unpublished) manumissive, granted by the Lieutenant-General, suggests at first sight that Mr. Hunt may have formed part of the garrison of Winchester Castle, which surrendered on the 6th of October, the very day before the signing of Oliver [Cromwell]'s pass; […] 1888 November, James Wayles, “The Wiltshire Compounders”, in The Wiltshire Archæological and Natural History Magazine, volume XXIV, number LXX, Devizes, Wiltshire: […] [F]or the [Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History] Society by H. F. Bull, […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 91:
    • Tangible evidence of the existence of well-organized, though Hellenized, Jewish communities in southeastern Europe and in the Bosporus and coastal regions of the Black Sea as early as the 1st cent. C.E. is offered in the form of manumissives of Jewish slaves[…]. 1941, Morris Lehrer, “EUROPE”, in Isaac Landman, editor, The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia […], volume 4, New York, N.Y.: The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, Inc., →OCLC, page 195, column 2:

Forms

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manumissives Number=Plur lexicographic

Translations (6)

fr lettre d'affranchissement (document having the effect of releasing someone from slavery or other legally sanctioned servitude) · fr acte d'affranchissement (document having the effect of releasing someone from slavery or other legally sanctioned servitude) · fr acte de manumission (document having the effect of releasing someone from slavery or other legally sanctioned servitude) · pl dokument wyzwoleńczy (document having the effect of releasing someone from slavery or other legally sanctioned servitude) · fr titre d'affranchissement (document having the effect of releasing someone from slavery or other legally sanctioned servitude) · fi vapauttava asiakirja (document having the effect of releasing someone from slavery or other legally sanctioned servitude)