convictism

Definitions

1. The policy or practice of transporting convicts to penal settlements, especially in Australia.
   uncountable
2. The convict system as embodied in its subjects; convicts as a group; the convict class.
   uncountable

Examples

“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.”

“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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