ppl. a. (UN-1 8.)
1675. Otway, Alcibiades, IV. iii. The basest wretch not unconvicted dies.
1760. Sterne, Tr. Shandy, IV. Slawkenb.’s Tale. Am I to be the sport of Fortune and Slander—destined to be driven forth unconvicted—unheard—untouched?
1828. P. Cunningham, N. S. Wales (ed. 3), II. 135. I see no reason whatever for excluding a man who has been once convicted, from any office the unconvicted now enjoy here.
1858. Merivale, Rom. Emp., lii. (1865), VI. 286. He did not venture to command his execution, unarraigned and unconvicted.
1894. H. Nisbet, Bush Girl’s Rom., 20. To personate the dead but unconvicted criminal.
