Definition of Convict

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Convict

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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Convict Quotations

Black jurors sit on juries every day and convict black people every day.
Johnnie Cochran

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

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

Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.
Earl Warren

It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.
Felix Frankfurter

I can appreciate that on one side, but we have to remember that the system is designed corruptly, and works against us, so you cant convict those who can benefit from the system, because its not neccesarily their fault.
Kool Moe Dee

Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.
Raquel Welch

Convict Translations

convict in Dutch is schuldig bevinden
convict in Norwegian is fange
convict in Spanish is convicto

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