criminate

Example Sentences

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Even in England a man is not asked to criminate himself.

From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Lever, Charles James

"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

This disclosure, if it exculpates you, will of course criminate her, and among those, too, where she has been received and admitted on terms of the closest friendship.

From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I by Lever, Charles James

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

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