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/kˈɑnvɪkt/ /kənvˈɪkt/ Listen

noun

Convict n.

A person proved guilty of a crime alleged against him; one legally convicted or sentenced to punishment for some crime.

A criminal sentenced to penal servitude.

Synonyms: Malefactor; culprit; felon; criminal.

verb

Convict v. t. (past & past part. convicted; pres. part. convicting)

To prove or find guilty of an offense or crime charged; to pronounce guilty, as by legal decision, or by one's conscience. "He (Baxter)... had been convicted by a jury." "They which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one."

To prove or show to be false; to confute; to refute. (Obs.)

To demonstrate by proof or evidence; to prove. "Imagining that these proofs will convict a testament, to have that in it which other men can nowhere by reading find."

To defeat; to doom to destruction. (Obs.) "A whole armado of convicted sail."

Synonyms: To confute; defect; convince; confound.

adjective

Convict adj. Proved or found guilty; convicted. (Obs.) "Convict by flight, and rebel to all law."

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Etymology of 'Convict'

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"Convict" Quotes from Famous Books

... knew his own vagabond unreason so well! No doubt he was mistaken. He had piled up the evidence as a charge is drawn up against an innocent person, whom it is always so easy to convict when we wish to think him guilty. When he should have slept he would ...

— The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. • Guy de Maupassant

... threatened, he cajoled, he twisted the law as only he could twist it, he suppressed honest testimony, he procured false; in fine, he weakened the case against her with so resistless an effrontery, that not the Hanging Judge himself could convict ...

— A Book of Scoundrels • Charles Whibley

... south are Portland Roads, usually interesting for the number of warships congregated there. There are exceedingly powerful defences at the ends of the breakwaters and the openings can be protected from under-water attack by enormous booms. The first wall took twenty-three years to build by convict labour and it explains the origin of the prison at Portland, which was not established as some think, because of the difficulty of escape, but solely for the convenience of "free labour." It is said that the amount of ...

— Wanderings in Wessex - An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter • Edric Holmes

... inconsiderable portion of the globe ere he could resolve to bury himself in a tiny hamlet for five years. The poems which Milton composed at Horton owe so much of their beauty to his country residence as to convict him of error in attaching no more importance to the influences of scenery. But this very excellence suggests that the spell of scenery need not be exactly proportioned ...

— Life of John Milton • Richard Garnett

... Britannia, to justify his new advancement, had introduced into a fresh edition of his book a good deal of information regarding the descent of barons and other noble families. This was York Herald's own subject, and he was able to convict Camden of a startling number of negligences, and what he calls "many gross mistakings." The worst part of it was that York Herald had privately pointed out these blunders to Camden, and that the latter had said it was too much trouble to alter them. This, at least, is what the enemy states ...

— Gossip in a Library • Edmund Gosse

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