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n. The policy or practice of transporting convicts to penal settlements.

n. The policy or practice of transporting convicts to penal settlements.

n. The convict system (which see, under convict, n.).

"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."

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