emancipist
Meanings
noun
- In penal colonies of early Australia, a convict who had been pardoned for good conduct; sometimes inclusively a convict whose sentence had completed, though one such was more usually called an expiree.
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From emancipate + -ist.
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