emancipist

/ɪˈmænsɪpɪst/

IPA: /IH0 M AE1 N S AH0 P AH0 S T/

noun
  1. 1

    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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