Word Meanings - SELF-CONVICTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Convicted by one's own consciousness, knowledge, avowal, or acts.

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• 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
• 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.
• CONVICTIBLE
  Capable of being convicted. Ash.
• CONVICTISM
  The policy or practice of transporting convicts to penal settlements. "The evils of convictism." W. Howitt.
• AVOWAL
  An open declaration; frank acknowledgment; as, an avowal of such principles. Hume.
• CONSCIOUSNESS
  1. The state of being conscious; knowledge of one's own existence, condition, sensations, mental operations, acts, etc. Consciousness is thus, on the one hand, the recognition by the mind or "ego" of its acts and affections; -- in other words,
• KNOWLEDGE
  The last part is the Icel. suffix -leikr, forming abstract nouns, orig. the same as Icel. leikr game, play, sport, akin to AS. lac, 1. The act or state of knowing; clear perception of fact, truth, or duty; certain apprehension; familiar cognizance;
• PREKNOWLEDGE
  Prior knowledge.
• ACKNOWLEDGE
  1. To of or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God. I acknowledge my transgressions. Ps. li. 3. For ends generally acknowledged to be good. Macaulay. 2. To own
• UNKNOWLEDGED
  Not acknowledged or recognized. For which bounty to us lent Of him unknowledged or unsent. B. Jonson.
• ACKNOWLEDGER
  One who acknowledges.
• SELF-CONVICTION
  The act of convicting one's self, or the state of being self- convicted.
• FOREKNOWLEDGE
  Knowledge of a thing before it happens, or of whatever is to happen; prescience. If I foreknew, Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault. Milton.
• DISAVOWAL
  The act of disavowing, disclaiming, or disowning; rejection and denial. An earnest disavowal of fear often proceeds from fear. Richardson.
• SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being self-conscious.
• SUBCONSCIOUSNESS
  The state or quality of being subconscious; a state of mind in which perception and other mental processes occur without distinct consciousness.
• DISACKNOWLEDGE
  To refuse to acknowledge; to deny; to disown. South.
• SELF-KNOWLEDGE
  Knowledge of one's self, or of one's own character, powers, limitations, etc.
• INTERKNOWLEDGE
  Mutual knowledge or acquaintance. Bacon.
• SELF-CONVICTED
  Convicted by one's own consciousness, knowledge, avowal, or acts.
• ACKNOWLEDGEDLY
  Confessedly.