self-convicted

While their master spoke in this manner, both the young men stood before him in the attitude of self-convicted criminals.

The Surgeon's Daughter 2008

No self-convicted criminal ever approached her angry and just judge with greater awe, nor with a truer contrition, than I do you by these lines.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Symposium in which Alcibiades describes himself as self-convicted by the words of Socrates.

The First Alcibiades 2006

The last time I had the boldness to write to you, it was with all the consciousness of a self-convicted criminal, supplicating her offended judge for mercy and pardon.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

I should stand self-convicted of villainy, were I to urge such a deceit.

Kenilworth 2004

Hester, — sometimes not without pangs of conscience on the part of the self-convicted parent.

John Caldigate 2004

He was here, self-convicted of sin, pleading to him, Mollenhauer, as he would to

The Financier 2004

Though Ratchcali did not possess a much higher place in his opinion, he favoured him with marks of his bounty, and exhorted him, if possible, to reform his heart; but he would by no means promise to interpose his credit in favour of a wretch self-convicted of such enormous villany and fraud.

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom 2004

A rule thus self-convicted of absurdity so far as regards its professed purpose, can be kept in force only as a badge of hatred, a relic of persecution; a persecution, too, having the peculiarity that the qualification for undergoing it is the being clearly proved not to deserve it.

On Liberty 2002

The motive of the piece may, perhaps, be found in that passage of the Symposium in which Alcibiades describes himself as self-convicted by the words of Socrates.

Alcibiades I circa 427-347 BC. Spurious and doubtful works Plato