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From emancipate + -ist.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: 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. Full definition →
From emancipate + -ist.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.