convict

Speech parts

1. convict - Noun

2. convict - Verb

Meaning

Proved or found guilty; convicted.

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.

To prove or find guilty of an offense or crime charged; to pronounce guilty, as by legal decision, or by one's conscience.

To prove or show to be false; to confute; to refute.

To demonstrate by proof or evidence; to prove.

To defeat; to doom to destruction.

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No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith. Anton Chekhov

What can I do if everyone from the president to a junior bureaucrat is dying to convict me. If I am such a criminal, what was I doing outside jail before my marriage to Benazir? Asif Ali Zardari

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The work of the Spirit is to impart life, to implant hope, to give liberty, to testify of Christ, to guide us into all truth, to teach us all things, to comfort the believer, and to convict the world of sin. Dwight L. Moody

A large number of suspects, both men and women, escaped martial law for lack of any shred of evidence against them on which a court-martial could convict. So they began setting them free in groups, according to their birth-place. But half-way, the car-load would be emptied into a ditch. Georges Bernanos

Not every defeat of authority is a gain for individual freedom, nor every judicial rescue of a convict a victory for liberty. Robert H. Jackson

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