convictism

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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
    — 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.

词汇关系

近义词
transportation

词源

From convict + -ism.
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