manslayer
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Origin of manslayer
before 1000; Middle English; manslaer. See man, slayer ( def. )
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No manslayer then the wide world o'er When Mine and Thine are known no more.
From Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough by Morris, William
And so in the midst of these voyces, and in the fury of the flames, he with his wife and the manslayer his sonne, in the yere of Christ 1010. ended his life.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 by Hakluyt, Richard
Cities of Refuge, among the Jews; three on the E. and three on the W. of the Jordan, in which the manslayer might find refuge from the avenger of blood.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin
There it stood, the terrible beast, the manslayer, gigantic in its might, and for a moment the spectator stood petrified.
From Harley Greenoak's Charge by Mitford, Bertram
The temporary restrictions laid on a manslayer were probably dictated by a fear of his victim's ghost.
From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia by Frazer, James George, Sir
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