convictism
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editconvictism (uncountable)
- The policy or practice of transporting convicts to penal settlements, especially in Australia.
- The convict system as embodied in its subjects; convicts as a group; the convict class.
- 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of his Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 51:
- 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.
- 1865, William Howitt, The History of Discovery in Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand […] :
- It was the simple expression of a necessity for clearing away from home a pressing amount of convictism, and of thus giving to this corrupt portion of society a means of regeneration
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edit- “convictism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.