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MANUMITTER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does manumitter mean?
• MANUMITTER (noun)
The noun MANUMITTER has 1 sense:
1. someone who frees others from bondage
Familiarity information: MANUMITTER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who frees others from bondage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
emancipator; manumitter
Context example:
Lincoln is known as the Great Emancipator
Hypernyms ("manumitter" is a kind of...):
liberator (someone who releases people from captivity or bondage)
Derivation:
manumit (free from slavery or servitude)
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