manslayer
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of manslayer
before 1000; Middle English; manslaer. See man, slayer ( def. )
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When the avenger of blood was at his heels, did the manslayer require any violence to urge him on to the asylum where he might lodge secure?
From The Ordinance of Covenanting by John Cunningham
In this case a special hut was not built for the manslayer, and he was allowed to pass the nights in the temple of the war god.
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 Sir James George Frazer
Then said Amis: “Never shall it be that my fellow be a manslayer for the healing of me.”
From Old French Romances by William Morris
In them, and in them only,Pg 80 was the manslayer safe from the avenger of blood.
From The Cities of Refuge: or, The Name of Jesus A Sunday book for the young by John R. (John Ross) Macduff
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 Richard Hakluyt
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