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EMANCIPIST
Definition of EMANCIPIST
noun
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.
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Where it comes from
From emancipate + -ist.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, EMANCIPATE · 3 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
EMANCIPIST in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 123, 20 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 41 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 120, 17 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
EMANCIPIST starts with E and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ACEIIMNPST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start EMANCI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found EMANCIPIST?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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