convicting
- 1Present participle and gerund of convict.
The new prosecutor has been convicting more defendants than her predecessor.
Convicting a suspect on circumstantial evidence alone troubled the judge.
Note
The -ing form does two jobs. After a form of be it builds the progressive (the jury is convicting), and on its own it works as a verbal noun (convicting the innocent). It comes only from the verb, so it has nothing to do with the noun convict, whether the prisoner or the striped fish. It can carry the moral sense too, as in a sermon convicting its listeners of pride, and also the sense of persuading someone to believe.
convicting is a form of convict
convict, verb: To find someone guilty of a crime through legal proceedings, or, more loosely, to judge a person guilty in a moral sense. Full entry
- Spelling
- convict → convicting: add -ing
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