The Collaborative International Dictionary
Convictism
Convictism \Con"vict*ism\, n.
The policy or practice of transporting convicts to penal
settlements. ``The evils of convictism.''
--W. Howitt.
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convictism
n. The policy or practice of transporting convicts to penal settlements.
Usage examples of "convictism".
So, in virtue of this last appeal, convictism had established a tacit right to converse in whispers, and to move about inside its oaken cage.
Perhaps this oddly-assorted friendship was brought about by two causes--one, that Mooney was the only man on the island who knew more of the horrors of convictism than the leader of the Ring.
Little Miss Sylvia was privileged to go anywhere and do anything, and even convictism shut its foul mouth in her presence.