Convince vs Convicted - What's the difference?
convince | convicted |
To make someone believe, or feel sure about something, especially by using logic, argument or evidence.
* Atterbury
To persuade.
(obsolete) To overcome, conquer, vanquish.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To confute; to prove wrong.
* Francis Bacon
(obsolete) To prove guilty; to convict.
* Bible, John viii. 46
* Dryden
(convict)
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.
As verbs the difference between convince and convicted
is that convince is to make someone believe, or feel sure about something, especially by using logic, argument or evidence while convicted is (convict).convince
English
Verb
(convinc)- Such convincing proofs and assurances of it as might enable them to convince others.
- His two chamberlains / Will I with wine and wassail so convince / That memory, the warder of the brain, / Shall be a fume.
- God never wrought miracle to convince' atheism, because his ordinary works ' convince it.
- Which of you convinceth me of sin?
- Seek not to convince me of a crime / Which I can ne'er repent, nor you can pardon.