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
He made the way as plain as possiblePg 70 to the manslayer of old.
From The Cities of Refuge: or, The Name of Jesus A Sunday book for the young by John R. (John Ross) Macduff
If a manslayer does not believe that the next of kin is on his track, he will not flee to the City of Refuge.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Alexander Maclaren
Impecunious ghosts, hard fate of, 406 Impurity, ceremonial, of manslayer, 229 sq.
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
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 Bertram Mitford
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