NOUN
  1. a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)
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How To Use manslayer In A Sentence

  • + The law of Israel was, "Ye shall take no ransom for the life of a manslayer, which is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death." [ Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
  • We all know, said she, that, since your Italian duel, you have commenced a bravo; and all your airs breathe as strongly of the manslayer as of the libertine. Pamela
  • Hither the murderer, the manslayer, the tabu-breaker fled, repaired to the presence of the idol, and thanked it for aiding him to reach the place of security. The Hawaiian Archipelago
  • And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment. Think Progress » Neocons Resurrect Plans For Regional War In The Middle East
  • “You shall survey the distances, and divide into three parts the territory of the country that Adonai your God has allotted to you, so that any manslayer may have a place to flee to.” In our mouths and in our hearts: Day 40 | Jewschool
  • The story here, "The Mighty Manslayer" 1918, begins: "Chakar Noyon was dead, long before the end of the sixteenth century, when Khlit, the Cossack called the 'Wolf,' he of the curved saber, rode into Samarkand. The Case of the Missing Adventure Story
  • “Mark, too, the immediate moral effect produced by this automatic manslayer,” he said. The Gun
  • And therefore men shall now say that thou art a manslayer, both of thy brother, Sir Lionel, and of thy cousin, Sir Launcelot du Lake, the which thou mightest have saved and rescued easily, but thou weenedst to rescue a maid which pertaineth nothing to thee. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
  • 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. A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas
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