Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A woman who has been freed from slavery.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A woman who has been a slave and is made free.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a woman who has been freed from slavery. Correlative of
freedman .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
woman who has been released from a condition ofslavery .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who has been freed from slavery
Etymologies
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Examples
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If, however, there are several descendants of a patron or patroness, or of two or several, the nearest in degree is to take the succession of the freedman or freedwoman, which is to be divided, not among the stocks, but by counting the heads of those nearest in degree.
The Institutes of Justinian John Baron Moyle 1891
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His freedwoman mistress Acte was the deed holder of a sizable amount of real estate in Egypt, Sardinia, and Italy, which she could have acquired only through the largesse of the emperor.
Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010
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Another key member of her household was the freedwoman Caenis, who acted as her secretary, a woman who was to make far more of an impact on Roman imperial history than her modest origins might predict.31
Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010
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Near a window shaded by towering trees is a small framed silhouette, also by Walker, called "Bureau of Refugees: Committed an outrage on a freedwoman."
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Summoning her secretary and trusted freedwoman Caenis, she dictated a letter warning her cousin of the plot and entrusted it to another servant, Pallas, to be delivered to Tiberius on Capri under cover of darkness.
Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010
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Although Vespasian was not a member of a high-ranking Roman family, the leges Juliae passed by Augustus had decreed that marriage between an equestrian and a freedwoman was forbidden.
Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010
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It seems likely that she was a freedwoman, and the laws forbade marriage between a free-born Roman citizen and a slave, or an ex-slave.
Augustine of Hippo: Common of Theologians and Teachers bls 2008
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It seems likely that she was a freedwoman, and the laws forbade marriage between a free-born Roman citizen and a slave, or an ex-slave.
Archive 2008-08-01 bls 2008
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Horace is the only one who celebrated a freedwoman in some of his odes.
Satyricon 2007
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This is due, however, to his taste for variety and perhaps also, to his birth, for he himself was the son of a freedwoman.
Satyricon 2007
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