criminate

Example Sentences

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It is not to criminate him that I have laid the truth before the public.

From Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity by Packard, Elizabeth Parsons Ware

As in law, so in morals, no man need criminate himself, but he who does so by an inadvertence is lost.

From One Of Them by Lever, Charles James

They accepted, indeed, her bribes, but prudently declined to carry out their part of the agreement, well knowing that she dare not venture to criminate herself by an open rupture with them.

From Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs by Withrow, William Henry

He did not wish by any means, he said, to induce him to criminate himself; but merely to give such explanations as he might think fit.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various

"How so?" asked Leuthold quietly, believing that he had destroyed every scrap of paper that could criminate him.

From Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Hillern, Wilhelmine von