This week’s theme
Back-formations

This week’s words
liaise
jerry-build
osmose
manumise
enthuse

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(MAN-yuh-myz)

MEANING:

verb tr.: To free from slavery, servitude, or restraint.

ETYMOLOGY:

Back-formation from manumission, from Latin manus (hand) + mittere (to let go). Earliest documented use: 1523. A synonym is manumit.

USAGE:

“[M]anumise, enfranchise, and from every tie of slavery or servitude set free.”
Garfield Ellis; The Angels’ Share; Akashic Books; 2016.

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