emancipistn.
/ᵻˈmansᵻpᵻst/, U.S. /əˈmænsəpəst/, Australian English /əˈmænsəpəst/ Australian.
An ex-convict, who has served his term of punishment. Also attributive.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prisoner > [noun] > former convict
freeman1791
expiree1802
old hand1826
emancipist1827
emancipatist1852
expirer1862
ex-convict1867
1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales 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.
1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 405 Emancipists, as the felons who have suffered out their terms of imprisonment are named.
1837 J. D. Lang Hist. Acct. New S. Wales I. 141 Crosley, the emancipist attorney.
1868 C. W. Dilke Greater Brit. II. iii. xiii. 129 Ticket-of-leave men and ‘emancipists’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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