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Manslayer

noun

A criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being). Synonyms: liquidator, murderer.

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"Manslayer" Quotes from Famous Books

... chills thy cheek And Pilate by the hue that sears thine hand Whence all earth's waters cannot wash the brand That signs thy soul a manslayer's though thou speak All Christ, with lips most murderous and most meek— Thou set thy foot where England's used to stand! Thou reach thy rod forth over Indian land! Slave of the slaves that call thee lord, and weak As their foul tongues who praise thee! son ...

— Poems & Ballads (Second Series) - Swinburne's Poems Volume III • Algernon Charles Swinburne

... man called Thorstein Knarrarsmid, who was a merchant and master ship-carpenter, stout and strong, very passionate, and a great manslayer. He had been in enmity against King Olaf, who had taken from him a new and large merchant-vessel he had built, on account of some manslaughter-mulct, incurred in the course of his misdeeds, which he owed to the king. Thorstein, ...

— Heimskringla - The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway • Snorri Sturluson

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