Emancipist vs Pic - What's the difference?
emancipist | pic |
(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 .
* 1827 , P. Cunningham, Two Years in New South Wales'', ''The London Magazine ,
* 2002 , David Neal, The Rule of Law in a Penal Colony: Law and Politics in Early New South Wales
* 2008 , John Bradley Hirst, Freedom on the Fatal Shore: Australia's First Colony ,
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(informal) A picture, especially a photographic image.
As nouns the difference between emancipist and pic
is that emancipist is (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 while pic is alternative form of.emancipist
English
(wikipedia emancipist)Alternative forms
* emancipatist (relatively rare)Noun
(en noun)page 520,
- On Governor Macquarie?s departure the emancipists' were again thrown into the shade, and not one ever visited the succeeding governor at a party of any description, nor did he ever dine even in company with a single ' emancipist , until the very close of his administration.
page 100,
- Macquarie?s position on the emancipist' issue was made abundantly clear almost from the outset by his appointment of three ' emancipists to the magistracy.
- In his reports Bigge did not totally oppose Macquarie?s policy of restoring emancipists to ‘society’. He criticised the governor for forcing the pace and in fact for giving greater countenance to his emancipist protégés than to free emigrants whose claims should have been treated far more sensitively.