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emancipist Australian.|ɪˈmænsɪpɪst| [f. emancip-ate + -ist.] An ex-convict, who has served his term of punishment. Also attrib.
1827P. Cunningham Two Years in N.S.W. II. xxiv. 118 The grand division..of the free classes..is into that of emigrants, who have come out free from England, and emancipists, who have arrived here as convicts, and have either been pardoned or completed their term of servitude. 1834Tait's Mag. I. 405 Emancipists, as the felons who have suffered out their terms of imprisonment are named. 1837J. Lang New S. Wales I. 141 Crosley, the emancipist attorney. 1868Dilke Greater Brit. II. iii. xiii. 129 Ticket-of-leave men and ‘emancipists’. |