Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A convict in a European penal colony who has been pardoned or emancipated.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Australia A freed convict.
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- noun Australia, historical In penal colonies of early
Australia , aconvict who had beenpardoned for good conduct; sometimes inclusively a convict whose sentence had completed, though one such was more usually called anexpiree .
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Examples
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There is much jealousy between the children of the rich emancipist and the free settlers, the former being pleased to consider honest men as interlopers.
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There is much jealousy between the children of the rich emancipist and the free settlers, the former being pleased to consider honest men as interlopers.
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During the government of Sir Richard Bourke, an attempt was made by him to introduce into his own parties some emancipist families; and on one occasion, the grand-daughter of a late Sydney hangman actually made her appearance at a ball at Government-house.
Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. G. F. Davidson
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The exceptions to this general rule, are to be found in the emancipist class; in the persons of notorious scamps who could not shew their face in respectable society in
Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. G. F. Davidson
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The members of the anti-emancipist party in New South Wales attribute the increase of crime in that colony partly to alleged relaxation of convict discipline under Sir Richard Bourke; partly to the action of the
A Source Book of Australian History Gwendolen H. [Compiler] Swinburne
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It will, however, take a number of years to clear the Colony of the half-reformed villain who still hankers after his old ways, -- of the _emancipist_, whom the law looks upon as a reformed character, but whom experience has taught the world to look upon with a very different eye, -- and of the convicts for life, who still amount to thousands.
Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. G. F. Davidson
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There is much jealousy between the children of the rich emancipist and the free settlers, the former being pleased to consider honest men as interlopers.
Chapter XIX 1909
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There is much jealousy between the children of the rich emancipist and the free settlers, the former being pleased to consider honest men as interlopers.
The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin 1845
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The measures of Macquarie were followed by years of faction: a press, representing emancipist interests and emancipist principles, and making the Governor the instrument or the object of the most violent hatred; still, on their side, the emigrants were often positive, virulent, and contemptuous.
The History of Tasmania , Volume II John West 1840
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_ Dodds, where the plaintiff was an emancipist, seemed to peril their freedom and property.
The History of Tasmania , Volume II John West 1840
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