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Definition of Pentonvillain in English: Pentonvillainnounˈpɛntənˌvɪlən 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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