Emancipist

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A convict in a European penal colony who has been pardoned or emancipated.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A freed convict.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. 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.