emancipist
/ɪˈmansɪpɪst
/noun Australian historical
A convict who has served out their sentence or has been pardoned: he married the daughter of a wealthy emancipist...
- Self-conscious of his native-born status and his parents' emancipist background, he strove to express poetically the voice of the new country.
- The free settlers in this area were the leading opponents of his favouring of the emancipist cause.
- An emancipist sawyer who previously murdered three people violently beat to death his lover.
Origin
Early 19th century: from Latin emancipare 'transfer as property' + -ist (see emancipate).
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