Convict vs Exonerate - What's the difference?
convict | exonerate |
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 relieve (someone or something) of a load; to unburden (a load).
(obsolete, reflexive) Of a body of water, to discharge (oneself), empty oneself.
*, II.ii.3:
To free from an obligation, responsibility or task.
To free from accusation or blame.
In lang=en terms the difference between convict and exonerate
is that convict is to find guilty while exonerate is to free from accusation or blame.As verbs the difference between convict and exonerate
is that convict is to find guilty while exonerate is to relieve (someone or something) of a load; to unburden (a load).As a noun convict
is (legal) a person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.convict
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(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)exonerate
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(exonerat)- I would examine the Caspian Sea, and see where and how it exonerates itself, after it hath taken in Volga, Iaxartes, Oxus, and those great rivers; at the mouth of Obi, or where?