Convict vs Acquit - What's the difference?
convict | acquit |
To find guilty
# as a result of legal proceedings, about of a crime
# informally, notably in a moral sense; said about both perpetrator and act.
(legal) A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.
A person deported to a penal colony.
A common name for the sheepshead (Archosargus probatocephalus), owing to its black and stripes.
To declare or find not guilty; innocent.
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To set free, release or discharge from an obligation, duty, liability, burden, or from an accusation or charge.
* 1775 , , The Duenna
* 1837 , , “Lord Bacon” in The Edinburgh Review , July 1837
(obsolete, rare) To pay for; to atone for
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To discharge, as a claim or debt; to clear off; to pay off; to requite, to fulfill.
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* 1640 , , Tasso
* 1836 , , Orations I-382
* 1844 , ” in Essays: second series
(reflexive) To clear one’s self.
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(reflexive) To bear or conduct one’s self; to perform one’s part.
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* 1766 , , The vicar of Wakefield , xiv
(obsolete) To release, set free, rescue.
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(archaic)
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Acquit is a antonym of convict.
As verbs the difference between convict and acquit
is that convict is to find guilty while acquit is to declare or find not guilty; innocent.As a noun convict
is a person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.convict
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Verb
(en verb)Synonyms
* (legal crime) sentence * (informal) disapproveNoun
(wikipedia convict) (en noun)Synonyms
* (person convicted of crime) assigned servant, con, government man, public servant * (person deported to a penal colony) penal colonistDerived terms
* con (synonym)acquit
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Alternative forms
* acquite (archaic)Verb
- The jury acquitted the prisoner ''of'' the charge.
- His poverty, can you acquit him of that?
- If he [Bacon] was convicted, it was because it was impossible to acquit him without offering the grossest outrage to justice and common sense.
- Till life to death acquit my forced offence.
- ‘Aquyte him wel, for goddes love,’ quod he;
- Midst foes (as champion of the faith) he ment / That palme or cypress should his painees acquite .
- I admit it to be not so much the duty as the privilege of an American citizen to acquit this obligation to the memory of his fathers with discretion and generosity.
- We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt; they die young and dodge the account: or if they live, they lose themselves in the crowd.
- Pray God he may acquit him of suspicion!
- The soldier acquitted himself well in battle.
- The orator acquitted himself very poorly.
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- Van Gaal responded by replacing Adnan Januzaj with Carrick and, in fairness, the emergency centre-half did exceedingly well given that he has not played since May. McNair also acquitted himself well after Rojo was injured sliding into a challenge with Martín Demichelis
- Though this was one of the first mercantile transactions of my life, yet I had no doubt about acquitting myself with reputation.
- Till I have acquit your captive Knight.
- I am glad I am so acquit of this tinder box.