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Origin and Etymology of convict
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Definition of convict
transitive verb
1 : to find or prove to be guilty The jury convicted them of fraud.
2 : to convince of error or sinfulness
intransitive verb
: to find a defendant guilty Remarkably, two of the jurors boldly dug in their heels and pressed to convict. — John Grisham
Examples of convict in a Sentence
There is sufficient evidence to convict.
He was convicted in federal court.
The jury convicted them on three counts of fraud.
Have you ever been convicted of a crime?
Recent Examples of convict from the Web
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Parliament took the rare step of issuing a formal apology to all those unfairly convicted under the antiquated laws.
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Obama’s priorities focused on people convicted of felonies or multiple misdemeanors.
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A person convicted of reckless driving can face up to 90 days in jail.
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A Lake Superior Court jury convicted a Gary father of all counts in the starvation death of his 3-month-old son and in the neglect of the baby's five siblings.
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McCarthy was convicted Monday of second-degree murder in the 2015 killing of Bella Bond, the daughter of his girlfriend at the time.
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The sentencing in U.S. District Court in Boston came after a jury convicted Barry J. Cadden of racketeering, mail fraud and other crimes but acquitted him of second-degree murder in March.
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Davila was convicted in 2009 of the shooting deaths of 5-year-old Queshawn Stevenson, and her grandmother, Annette Marie Stevenson, 48, on April 6, 2008 at a children’s birthday party in the Stop Six neighborhood in southeast Fort Worth.
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The last 10 captives have cases being handled through military commission proceedings — two through plea bargains and one who had been convicted of war crimes that were overturned although he is still held as a convict serving a life sentence.
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Origin and Etymology of convict
Middle English, from Anglo-French convicter, from Latin convictus, past participle of convincere to refute, convict
Definition of convict
1 : a person convicted of and under sentence for a crime
2 : a person serving a usually long prison sentence
Examples of convict in a Sentence
a warning that the three escaped convicts were armed and dangerous
Recent Examples of convict from the Web
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Demonstrators held signs that were variations on a single theme: Convict and jail Ray Tensing.
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That raid in Watsonville, Santa Cruz and Daly City also rounded up people who are not convicts.
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Another JaCo jury convicts Dewayne Cornelius for Murder 2/Armed Criminal Action.
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This outcome destroyed the brief experiment in non-racial government in the American South, leading to the apartheid of Jim Crow and the neo-slavery of convict leasing.
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City officials point to programs aimed at mentoring at-risk youths, building stronger families and helping ex-convicts turn around their lives.
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Long U.S. expansion gives ex-convicts a second chance at a job.
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Ronald Tatro was a violent convict who had kidnapped and raped a woman in Arkansas in 1974 and snatched a La Mesa woman in 1985.
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HARMONIUM A prizewinner at Cannes, Koji Fukada’s film captures the ripple effects on one family after the father (Kanji Furutachi) invites an acquaintance (Tadanobu Asano), a recent ex-convict, to work with him in the garage next to his home.
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Origin and Etymology of convict
see 2convict
Other Legal Terms
CONVICT Defined for English Language Learners
convict
playDefinition of convict for English Language Learners
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law : to prove that someone is guilty of a crime in a court of law
convict
playDefinition of convict for English Language Learners
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: a person who has been found guilty of a crime and sent to prison
CONVICT Defined for Kids
Definition of convict for Students
convicted
;convicting
: to prove or find guilty
Definition of convict for Students
: a person serving a prison sentence
Law Dictionary
Origin and Etymology of convict
Latin convictus past participle of convincere to find guilty, prove, from com- with, together + vincer to conquer
Legal Definition of convict
: a person convicted of and serving a sentence for a crime
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