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A person whose worst day became their permanent job title.
means A person who has been found guilty of a crime and sentenced, especially one serving time in prison.
from From Latin convictus, past participle of convincere — 'to conquer thoroughly' or 'prove guilty,' built from com- (intensive 'thoroughly') plus vincere ('to conquer'). The same vincere gives us 'convince' and 'victory' — so being convicted and being convinced share a root: both mean someone was decisively defeated by evidence.
- etymology
- from Latin convincere, to decisively prove wrong
- legal status
- guilt confirmed, appeals still theoretically possible
- noun vs verb
- stress shifts: CON-vict the person, con-VICT the action
- australia origin
- founded partly by convicts shipped from Britain