Definition of "manslayer" [man•slay•er]

• One, such as a person or animal, that kills a human. (noun)

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• "+ 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." ["
• "“Mark, too, the immediate moral effect produced by this automatic manslayer,” he said."
• "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."