Convict vs. Felon — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Convict and Felon
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Convict
A convict is "a person found guilty of a crime and sentenced by a court" or "a person serving a sentence in prison". Convicts are often also known as "prisoners" or "inmates" or by the slang term "con", while a common label for former convicts, especially those recently released from prison, is "ex-con" ("ex-convict").
Felon
(Law) One who has committed a felony.
Convict
(Law) To find or prove (someone) guilty of an offense or crime, especially by the verdict of a court
The jury convicted the defendant of manslaughter.
Felon
(Archaic) An evil person.
Convict
To show or declare to be blameworthy; condemn
His remarks convicted him of a lack of sensitivity.
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Felon
A painful purulent infection at the end of a finger or toe in the area surrounding the nail. Also called whitlow.
Convict
To make aware of one's sinfulness or guilt.
Felon
Evil; cruel.
Convict
To return a verdict of guilty in a court
"We need jurors ... who will not convict merely because they are suspicious" (Scott Turow).
Felon
A person who has committed a felony.
Convict
A person found or declared guilty of an offense or crime.
Felon
(legal) A person who has been tried and convicted of a felony.
Convict
A person serving a sentence of imprisonment.
Felon
A wicked person.
Convict
(transitive) To find guilty, as a result of legal proceedings, or (informal) in a moral sense.
His remarks convicted him of a lack of sensitivity.
Felon
(medicine) A bacterial infection at the end of a finger or toe.
Convict
To convince, persuade; to cause (someone) to believe in (something).
Felon
Wicked; cruel
Convict
(legal) A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.
Felon
A person who has committed a felony.
Convict
A person deported to a penal colony.
Felon
A person guilty or capable of heinous crime.
Convict
The convict cichlid (Amatitlania nigrofasciata), also known as the zebra cichlid, a popular aquarium fish, with stripes that resemble a prison uniform.
Felon
A kind of whitlow; a painful imflammation of the periosteum of a finger, usually of the last joint.
Convict
A common name for the sheepshead (Archosargus probatocephalus), owing to its black and gray stripes.
Felon
Characteristic of a felon; malignant; fierce; malicious; cruel; traitorous; disloyal.
Vain shows of love to vail his felon hate.
Convict
Proved or found guilty; convicted.
Convict by flight, and rebel to all law.
Felon
Someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime
Convict
A person proved guilty of a crime alleged against him; one legally convicted or sentenced to punishment for some crime.
Felon
A purulent infection at the end of a finger or toe in the area surrounding the nail
Convict
A criminal sentenced to penal servitude.
Convict
To prove or find guilty of an offense or crime charged; to pronounce guilty, as by legal decision, or by one's conscience.
He [Baxter] . . . had been convicted by a jury.
They which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one.
Convict
To prove or show to be false; to confute; to refute.
Convict
To demonstrate by proof or evidence; to prove.
Imagining that these proofs will convict a testament, to have that in it which other men can nowhere by reading find.
Convict
To defeat; to doom to destruction.
A whole armado of convicted sail.
Convict
A person serving a sentence in a jail or prison
Convict
A person who has been convicted of a criminal offence
Convict
Find or declare guilty;
The man was convicted of fraud and sentenced
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