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self-convicted en · ADJ

Etymology

From self- + convicted.

Meanings

  1. (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: