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Convict vs Confute - What's the difference?

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Convict is a synonym of confute.


As verbs the difference between convict and confute

is that convict is to find guilty while confute is to show (something or someone) to be false or wrong; to disprove or refute.

As a noun convict

is (legal) a person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.

convict

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • 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.

    • Synonyms

    * (legal crime) sentence * (informal) disapprove

    Related terms

    * conviction

    Noun

    (wikipedia convict) (en noun)
  • (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.

    • Synonyms

    * (person convicted of crime) assigned servant, con, government man, public servant * (person deported to a penal colony) penal colonist

    Derived terms

    * con (synonym)

    confute

    English

    Verb

    (confut)
  • To show (something or someone) to be false or wrong; to disprove or refute.
  • * 1593 , (Henry Peacham), The Garden of Eloquence :
    • Procatalepsis is a forme of speech by which the Orator perceiving aforehand what might be objected against him, and hurt him, doth confute it before it be spoken .
  • * 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
    • bad books [...] to a discreet and judicious Reader serve in many respects to discover, to confute , to forewarn, and to illustrate.