Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In medicine:
- noun An acute and painful inflammation of the deeper tissues of the finger or toe, especially of the distal phalanx, generally seated near the nail; paronychia; whitlow.
- noun A sort of inflammation in quadrupeds, similar to whitlow in man.
- noun A wicked person; a cruel, fierce person; one guilty of heinous crimes.
- noun In law, a person who has committed a felony. The term is not applicable after legal punishment has been completed.
- noun Felony.
- noun Synonyms Criminal, convict, malefactor, culprit, outlaw.
- Wicked; malignant; malicious; treacherous; proceeding from a depraved heart.
- Obtained by felony or crime; of goods, stolen.
- Wretched; forlorn.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Characteristic of a felon; malignant; fierce; malicious; cruel; traitorous; disloyal.
- noun (Law) A person who has committed a felony.
- noun A person guilty or capable of heinous crime.
- noun (Med.) A kind of whitlow; a painful imflammation of the periosteum of a finger, usually of the last joint.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A bacterial
infection of the pad at the end of afinger ortoe . - noun A person who has
committed afelony . - noun law A person who has been
tried andconvicted of afelony .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
- noun a purulent infection at the end of a finger or toe in the area surrounding the nail
Etymologies
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Examples
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Before I go any further I have to say the justice system goes too far in some or perhaps many cases for what a felon is and the penalties and restrictions once time has been served, they paid for the crime.
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Before I go any further I have to say the justice system goes too far in some or perhaps many cases for what a felon is and the penalties and restrictions once time has been served, they paid for the crime.
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“I do sense that you are invested in felon disenfranchisement for some reason, like I am invested in having a universal franchise ….”
Matthew Yglesias » George Will’s Odd Aversion to Democracy 2009
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I reason that if a felon is deemed too dangerous to possess a gun then why is he being turned loose in the first place?
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Second Amendment and the Takings Clause 2010
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I do sense that you are invested in felon disenfranchisement for some reason, like I am invested in having a universal franchise.
Matthew Yglesias » George Will’s Odd Aversion to Democracy 2009
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A convicted felon is going to be speaking at their convention.
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A Republican felon is much better that the possibility of having a Liberal dictatorship in control of this country.
The Week Ahead in Senate Races - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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I haven't seen the word felon used, I assume that you made that one up based on the corruption claim which is again pretty much made up by you from people claiming that she is beholden to special interest money.
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I haven't seen the word felon used, I assume that you made that one up based on the corruption claim which is again pretty much made up by you from people claiming that she is beholden to special interest money.
Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Leahy Endorses Obama, Likens Him To Bobby Kennedy 2009
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Truth be told, I've generally found your average convicted felon is a hell of a lot more decent than your average prison guard, who are allmost uniformly some of the most vile & despicable people I have ever met.
mollusque commented on the word felon
A small abscess or boil; a whitlow. (Listed in OED2). See paronychia.
November 12, 2007
yarb commented on the word felon
A female melon.
November 12, 2007
bilby commented on the word felon
Gotta defer to that wondrous trove of etymonline.com for this:
"Another theory (advanced by Professor R. Atkinson of Dublin) traces it to Latin fellare "to suck" (see fecund), which had an obscene secondary meaning in classical Latin (well-known to readers of Martial and Catullus), which would make a felon etymologically a "cock-sucker." OED inclines toward the "gall" explanation, but finds Atkinson's "most plausible" of the others."
July 5, 2021