self-convicted en · ADJ
Etymology
From self- + convicted.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Convicted by one's own consciousness, knowledge, or avowal.
In a better cause, what fortitude, what endurance, would have belonged to her nature! even humiliated, self-convicted as she felt, her native pride could not quite desert her.
1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Lord Marchmont’s Jealousy”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 189: