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Convict vs Dispraise - What's the difference?

convict | dispraise |

As verbs the difference between convict and dispraise

is that convict is to find guilty while dispraise is to notice with disapprobation or some degree of censure; to disparage, to criticize.

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)

    dispraise

    English

    Verb

  • To notice with disapprobation or some degree of censure; to disparage, to criticize.
  • *1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts XIII:
  • *:They spake agaynst it, and dispraysed it, raylinge on it.
  • *1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
  • *:Although I dispraise not the defence of just immunities, yet love my peace better, if that were all.
  • *1992 , (Hilary Mantel), A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 157:
  • *:He became familiar with that habit of mind which dispraises what it most envies and admires: with that habit of mind which desires only what it cannot have.