pronounce guilty
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We lawyers—outside our profession—have founded an association to support and encourage those we are obliged to pronounce guilty, that they may not sink down uncomforted.
From I.N.R.I. A prisoner's Story of the Cross by Peter Rosegger
To convince is 'to satisfy the understanding;' to convict, 'to pronounce guilty.'
From Practical Exercises in English by Huber Gray Buehler
Condemn, kon-dem′, v.t. to pronounce guilty: to censure or blame: to sentence to punishment: to give up to some fate: to pronounce unfit for use.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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