Self-convicted

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Convicted by one's own consciousness, knowledge, or avowal. not-comparable

    "In a better cause, what fortitude, what endurance, would have belonged to her nature! even humiliated, self-convicted as she felt, her native pride could not quite desert her."

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"In a better cause, what fortitude, what endurance, would have belonged to her nature! even humiliated, self-convicted as she felt, her native pride could not quite desert her."

Etymology

From self- + convicted.

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