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What does emancipist mean?

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Noun
  1. (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.
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Capt Sanderson, Master of the Lodge, beat emancipist Colonial Architect, Francis Greenway for writing an impertinent letter.
The flow of ineffectives was sufficiently large, however, to leave a significant invalid emancipist legacy.
Self-conscious of his native-born status and his parents' emancipist background, he strove to express poetically the voice of the new country.
An emancipist sawyer who previously murdered three people violently beat to death his lover.
On 17 July 1803, the wealthy emancipist Simeon Lord advertised in the Sydney Gazette for the return of his copy of Clara Reeve's popular Gothic novel The Old English Baron.
He was one of twenty most important emancipist landholders next in New South Wales.

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