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Definition of Freedwoman
1. Noun. A person who has been freed from slavery.
Definition of Freedwoman
1. Noun. A woman who has been released from a condition of slavery. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Freedwoman
1. [n -WOMEN]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Freedwoman
Literary usage of Freedwoman
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Emancipation and the Freed in American Sculpture: A Study in Interpretation by Freeman Henry Morris Murray (1916)
"... FREED THE "freedwoman," BY EDMONIA LEWIS As the War was drawing to a close,
an entirely new and unexpected star burst forth in the firmament of American ..."
2. A Systematic and Historical Exposition of Roman Law in the Order of a Code by William Alexander Hunter, Gaius, John Ashton Cross (1897)
"If, again, the freedwoman makes a will before she dies, such rights are given
the patron's daughter as have been given a patroness honoured by having ..."
3. The Commentaries of Gaius and Rules of Ulpian by Gaius (1885)
"When a freedwoman died, leaving a daughter of her patron, or other female ...
if she had three children, and the freedwoman less than four; ..."
4. Roman Private Law in the Times of Cicero and of the Antonines by Henry John Roby (1902)
"A freedwoman patroness with three children was given the same rights as a ...
(b) As regards the estate of a deceased freedwoman, who died intestate, ..."
5. Outline of Roman History from Romulus to Justinian: (including Translations by David Nasmith, Gaius (1890)
"The right to a portion of a child of the estate of a freedwoman who has had ...
However, if the freedwoman has died intestate, the daughter of the patron ..."
6. The Institutes of Gaius and Rules of Ulpian: The Former from Studemund's by Gaius, Wilhelm Studemund, James Muirhead (1880)
"If, however, there have been capitis deminutio either of the patroness or of her
freedwoman, the latter's children then exclude the patroness; for, ..."
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