manslayer

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Thus we write fathers-in-law, sons-in-law, knights-errant, courts-martial, cousins-german, hangers-on, comings-in, goings-out, goings-forth, varying the first; and manhaters, manstealers, manslayers, maneaters, mandrills, handfuls, spoonfuls, mouthfuls, pailfuls, outpourings, ingatherings, downsittings, overflowings, varying the last.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

This interpretation of the ceremonies observed by manslayers among many peoples might be supported by a large array of evidence; but to go into the matter fully would lead me into a long digression.

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 Frazer, James George, Sir

Otherwise, He would have legislated for the departure of slaves from their Hebrew masters, as He did for manslayers fleeing from the avenger of blood.

From The Sable Cloud A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861) by Adams, Nehemiah

Animistic views of the Papuans, 264 Anjea, a mythical being, 128 Annam, 67, 69 Anointing manslayers, 448 Ant-hills, ghosts turn into, 287 Ant totem, dramatic ceremony concerned with, 120 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 Frazer, James George, Sir

Confession of sins, 201 Congo, natives of the, their ideas as to natural death, 50;   worship of the moon on the, 68 Consecration of manslayers in Fiji, 448 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 Frazer, James George, Sir