Australian. [f. EMANCIP-ATE + -IST.] An ex-convict, who has served his term of punishment. Also attrib.
1834. Tait’s Mag., I. 405. Emancipists, as the felons who have suffered out their terms of imprisonment are named.
1837. J. Lang, New S. Wales, I. 141. Crosley, the emancipist attorney.
1868. Dilke, Greater Brit., II. III. xiii. 129. Ticket-of-leave men and ‘emancipists.’
