Definitions for felon
ˈfɛl ənfelon

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. criminal, felon, crook, outlaw, malefactornoun

   someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime

2. felon, whitlownoun

   a purulent infection at the end of a finger or toe in the area surrounding the nail

WiktionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. felonnoun

   A person convicted of a felony.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Felonadjective

   Cruel; traitorous; inhuman.

   Ay me! what thing on earth, that all things breeds,
   Might be the cause of so impatient plight!
   What fury, or what fiend with felon deeds,
   Hath stirred up so mischievous despight! Edmund Spenser.

   Then bids prepare th’ hospitable treat,
   Vain shews of love to veil his felon hate. Alexander Pope, Odyssey.

2. FELONnoun

   Etymology: felon, French; felo, low Latin; fel, Saxon.

   1. One who has committed a capital crime.

   I apprehend thee for a felon here. William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet.

   And often have you brought the wily fox,
   Chas’d even amid’ the folds; and made to bleed,
   Like felons, where they did the murd’rous deed. Dryden.

   2. A whitlow; a tumour formed between the bone and its investing membrane, very painful.

   The malign paronychia is that which is commonly called a felon. Richard Wiseman, Surgery.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Felon

   A felony is traditionally considered a crime of high seriousness, whereas a misdemeanor is regarded as less serious. The term "felony" originated from English common law (from the French medieval word "félonie") to describe an offense that resulted in the confiscation of a convicted person's land and goods, to which additional punishments including capital punishment could be added; other crimes were called misdemeanors. Following conviction of a felony in a court of law, a person may be described as a felon or a convicted felon. Some common law countries and jurisdictions no longer classify crimes as felonies or misdemeanors and instead use other distinctions, such as by classifying serious crimes as indictable offenses and less serious crimes as summary offenses. In the United States, where the felony/misdemeanor distinction is still widely applied, the federal government defines a felony as a crime punishable by death or imprisonment in excess of one year. If punishable by exactly one year or less, it is classified as a misdemeanor. The classification is based upon a crime's potential sentence, so a crime remains classified as a felony even if a defendant convicted of a felony receives a sentence of one year or less. Some individual states classify crimes by other factors, such as seriousness or context. In some civil law jurisdictions, such as Italy and Spain, the term delict is used to describe serious offenses, a category similar to common law felony. In other nations, such as Germany, France, Belgium, and Switzerland, more serious offenses are described as crimes, while misdemeanors or delicts (or délits) are less serious. In still others (such as Brazil and Portugal), crimes and delicts are synonymous (more serious) and are opposed to contraventions (less serious).

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1. felon

   A felon is a person who has been convicted of a serious crime such as murder, rape, burglary, or other offenses, typically punishable by imprisonment for more than one year or by death. The exact categorization of crimes as felonies varies based on jurisdiction.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. Felonadjective

   a person who has committed a felony

2. Felonadjective

   a person guilty or capable of heinous crime

3. Felonadjective

   a kind of whitlow; a painful imflammation of the periosteum of a finger, usually of the last joint

4. Felonadjective

   characteristic of a felon; malignant; fierce; malicious; cruel; traitorous; disloyal

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1. Felon

   Felon is a 2008 American drama film about a family man who ends up in state prison after he kills an intruder. The film was written and directed by Ric Roman Waugh, and stars Stephen Dorff, Val Kilmer and Harold Perrineau. The story is based on events that took place in the 1990s at the notorious California State Prison, Corcoran.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Felon

   fel′on, n. one guilty of felony: a convict: a wicked person: an inflamed sore.—adj. wicked or cruel.—adj. Felō′nious, wicked: depraved: done with the deliberate intention to commit crime.—adv. Felō′niously.—n. Felō′niousness, the quality of being felonious.—adj. Fel′onous (Spens.), felonious.—ns. Fel′onry, a body of felons; Fel′ony, (orig.) a crime punished by total forfeiture of lands, &c.: a grave crime, beyond a misdemeanour, as that punishable by penal servitude or death. [O. Fr.,—Low L. fellonem, fello, a traitor, prob. L. fel, gall.]

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of felon in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of felon in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of felon in a Sentence

1. Jeff Sessions:

   When jurisdictions choose to return criminal aliens to the streets rather than turning them over to federal immigration authorities, they put the public’s safety at risk. San Francisco’s decision to protect criminal aliens led to the preventable and heartbreaking death of Kate Steinle, while the State of California sought a murder charge for the man who caused Ms. Steinle’s death—a man who would not have been on the streets of San Francisco if the city simply honored an ICE detainer—the people ultimately convicted him of felon in possession of a firearm.

2. John Champion:

   This was a violent felon who did not obviously want to go to jail, it's obvious that he had no appreciation for the value of human life.

3. Shawn Nelson:

   Our people can’t even talk to the federal government unless there are some exceptions that are met, like they are a prior convicted felon. But we have people getting out every day that we don’t want released without the federal government at least having an opportunity to put hands on and make their own decision whether these people ought to be released into the streets.

4. Andrew Brown:

   When weighing the degree of force used, a prosecutor must pay careful attention to the facts and circumstances of each particular case including the severity of the crime at issue, whether the suspect poses an immediate threat to the safety of officers or others, and whether he is actively resisting arrest or attempting to evade arrest by flight, i find the facts of this case clearly illustrate the officers who used deadly force on Andrew Brown Jr. did so reasonably and only when a violent felon used a deadly weapon to place their lives in danger.

5. Sheriff Paul Babeu:

   On average these criminals have been in federal prison for nine years -- you don’t have to be a sheriff to realize that a felon after nine years in jail isn’t going to be adding value to the community. A third are illegals and felons so they can’t work. What do we think they are going to do?

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=felon
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Felon
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=felon
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felon
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/felon
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=felon
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=felon