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Convictism
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
The convict system (which see, under
convict
,
n.
).
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
The policy or practice of transporting convicts to penal settlements.
Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
noun.
The
policy
or
practice
of
transporting
convicts
to
penal
settlements
.
Word Usage
"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."
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verb-stem
convict