Word Meanings - CONVICT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Proved or found guilty; convicted. Shak. Convict by flight, and rebel to all law. Milton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONVICT)

• Condemn
• Blame
• convict
• reprove
• cast
• censure
• denounce
• doom
• sentence

Related words: (words related to CONVICT)

• DENOUNCE
  denunciare; de- + nunciare, nuntiare, to announce, report, nuntius a 1. To make known in a solemn or official manner; to declare; to proclaim . Denouncing wrath to come. Milton. I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish. Deut. xxx.
• CENSURER
  One who censures. Sha.
• CONVICTION
  A judgment of condemnation entered by a court having jurisdiction; the act or process of finding guilty, or the state of being found guilty of any crime by a legal tribunal. Conviction may accrue two ways. Blackstone. 3. The act of convincing of
• CONDEMNER
  One who condemns or censures.
• BLAME
  LL. also to blame, fr. Gr. to speak ill to slander, to blaspheme, fr. evil speaking, perh, for ; injury + a saying, fr. to 1. To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach. We have none to blame but ourselves.
• BLAMER
  One who blames. Wyclif.
• CONVICT
  Proved or found guilty; convicted. Shak. Convict by flight, and rebel to all law. Milton.
• CONVICTIVE
  Convincing. The best and most convictive argument. Glanwill. -- Con*vict"ive*ly, adv. -- Con*vict"ive*ness, n.
• CONDEMNED
  1. Pronounced to be wrong, guilty, worthless, or forfeited; adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation. 2. Used for condemned persons. Richard Savage . . . had lain with fifty pounds weight of irons on his legs
• CONVICTIBLE
  Capable of being convicted. Ash.
• REPROVE
  1. To convince. When he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment. John xvi. 9. 2. To disprove; to refute. Reprove my allegation, if you can. Shak. 3. To chide to the face as blameworthy; to accuse as guilty;
• SENTENCER
  One who pronounced a sentence or condemnation.
• CENSURE
  1. Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion. Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Shak. 2. The act of blaming or finding fault with and condemning as wrong; reprehension; blame. Both the censure and the praise were merited.
• CONVICTISM
  The policy or practice of transporting convicts to penal settlements. "The evils of convictism." W. Howitt.
• REPROVER
  One who, or that which, reproves.
• DENOUNCER
  One who denounces, or declares, as a menace. Here comes the sad denouncer of my fate. Dryden.
• SENTENCE
  In civil and admiralty law, the judgment of a court pronounced in a cause; in criminal and ecclesiastical courts, a judgment passed on a criminal by a court or judge; condemnation pronounced by a judgical tribunal; doom. In common law, the term
• BLAMEFUL
  1. Faulty; meriting blame. Shak. 2. Attributing blame or fault; implying or conveying censure; faultfinding; censorious. Chaucer. -- Blame"ful*ly, adv. -- Blame"ful*ness, n.
• SENTENCE METHOD
  A method of teaching reading by giving first attention to phrases and sentences and later analyzing these into their verbal and alphabetic components; -- contrasted with alphabet and word methods.
• CONDEMN
  To doom to be taken for public use, under the right of eminent domain. Syn. -- To blame; censure; reprove; reproach; upbraid; reprobate; convict; doom; sentence; adjudge. (more info) 1. To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure.
• PRECONDEMN
  To condemn beforehand. -- Pre*con`dem*na"tion, n.
• DISBLAME
  To clear from blame. Chaucer.
• SELF-CONVICTION
  The act of convicting one's self, or the state of being self- convicted.
• SELF-CONDEMNATION
  Condemnation of one's self by one's own judgment.
• MISCENSURE
  To misjudge. Daniel. -- n.