emancipist
Noun
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Noun
emancipist (plural emancipists)
- (Australia, historical) 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.
- 1827, P. Cunningham, Two Years in New South Wales, The London Magazine, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=3QEFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA520&dq=%22emancipist%22|%22emancipists%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Xp1JT7e2CKehmQXm352dDg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22emancipist%22|%22emancipists%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 520],
- On Governor Macquarie′s departure the emancipists were again thrown into the shade, and not one ever visited the succeeding governor at a party of any description, nor did he ever dine even in company with a single emancipist, until the very close of his administration.
- 1827, P. Cunningham, Two Years in New South Wales, The London Magazine, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=3QEFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA520&dq=%22emancipist%22|%22emancipists%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Xp1JT7e2CKehmQXm352dDg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22emancipist%22|%22emancipists%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 520],
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