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Convict   /kˈɑnvɪkt/  /kənvˈɪkt/   Listen
Convict

noun
1.
A person serving a sentence in a jail or prison.  Synonyms: con, inmate, yard bird, yardbird.
2.
A person who has been convicted of a criminal offense.
verb
(past & past part. convicted; pres. part. convicting)
1.
Find or declare guilty.



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"Convict" Quotes from Famous Books



... the two kinds of love. The disciple of Plato rises, far from the vulgarities of life, into the lofty regions of the ideal, and feeds on beauty. Vincent de Paul takes the place of a convict at the galleys that he may restore a father to his children. These two kinds of love seem to us to be contrary one to the other: the one seeks itself, and the other gives itself. Still they are both necessary to ...
— The Heavenly Father - Lectures on Modern Atheism • Ernest Naville

... your hands," answered Sanselme. "You can at any moment denounce me as an escaped convict. Do what you please, but you shall not say one word of her who ...
— The Son of Monte Cristo • Jules Lermina

... of speech and press and they promptly impeached Samuel Chase, a justice of the Supreme Court, who had been especially severe in his attacks upon offenders under the Sedition Act. Their failure to convict Justice Chase by a narrow margin was due to no lack of zeal on their part but to the Federalist strength in the Senate where the trial was held. They had regarded the appointment of a large number of federal judges during the last hours of Adams' administration as an attempt ...
— 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

... host of others, who have long since come to substantially your conclusions on this head. They all agree that the leading periods mentioned by Daniel and John do actually expire about this age of the world, and it would be a strange logic that would convict you of heresy for holding in effect the same views which stand forth so prominently in the notices of these eminent divines." "Your results in this field of inquiry do not strike me as so far out of the way as to affect any of the great interests of truth ...
— The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan • Ellen G. White


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