criminate
Example Sentences
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He had sought out Papa Francoise hoping to win from him something that would criminate Alan Warburton, and to use him as a tool.
From Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives by Lynch, Lawrence L.
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
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
It's a flam and a humbug,—a fiction like the old story about an Englishman's house being his castle, or that balderdash, 'No man need criminate himself.'
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Lever, Charles James
Does not the law of England expressly declare that no man need criminate himself?
From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Lever, Charles James