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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'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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— History of the United States • Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard

... cannot be guilty of receiving them knowing them to be stolen. And, besides, as to his offence, to say the truth, I am almost weary of prosecuting it; for such are the difficulties laid in the way of this prosecution, that it is almost impossible to convict any one on it. And, to speak my opinion plainly, such are the laws, and such the method of proceeding, that one would almost think our laws were rather made for the protection of rogues than for the punishment ...

— Amelia (Complete) • Henry Fielding

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— The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan • Ellen G. White

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