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单词 Pentonvillain
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Definition of Pentonvillain in English:

Pentonvillain

nounˈpɛntənˌvɪlən
Australian derogatory, historical
  • A convict sentenced in Britain to transportation, but required first to serve eighteen months in Pentonville Prison, London (or another reformatory prison) receiving moral and religious instruction and learning a trade, before being sent to Australia on a conditional pardon.

    the British Government continued to send cargoes of Pentonvillains
    Example sentencesExamples
    • No more Pentonvillains ere sent, and Britain was left to find a new conduit for its prison overflow.
    • The British Government precipitated upon us colonists—batches of Pentonville men, commonly called the Pentonvillains.
    • The Pentonvillains were unacceptable and their transportation soon ended, frustrated by large hostile demonstrations.
    • Not all diggers were diggers—there were bushrangers and Pentonvillains only too eager to relieve the diggers of their gains.
    • They claimed the system "had seriously impaired the mental faculties of several of the Pentonvillains, as they were termed."
    • The most convincing discovery was made in 1849 by a 22-year-old transported Pentonvillain named Thomas Chapman.
    • Suffolk, for instance, was a Pentonvillain who was transported in 1847 for fraud.
    • These exiles were quickly dubbed Pentonvillains—a play on the name of the British prison Pentonville, from which the first exiles had come.
    • Feeling was running high over the Pentonvillains, and Grey was deservedly criticized.
    • Port Phillip was deemed suitable as a place of rehabilitation for a class of convicts called exiles or Pentonvillains.
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