self-convicted

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English

Etymology

From self- +‎ convicted.

Adjective

self-convicted (not comparable)

  1. Convicted by one's own consciousness, knowledge, or avowal.
    • 1837, L E L, “Lord Marchmont’s Jealousy”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. , volume III, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, page 189:
      In a better cause, what fortitude, what endurance, would have belonged to her nature! even humiliated, self-convicted as she felt, her native pride could not quite desert her.

References

  • Ogilvie, John. The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language: A Complete Encyclopedic Lexicon, Literary, Scientific, and Technological. Blackie & Son. (1884).