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noun

Conviction n.

1.

The act of convicting; the act of proving, finding, or adjudging, guilty of an offense. "The greater certainty of conviction and the greater certainty of punishment."

2.

(Law) A judgment of condemnation entered by a court having jurisdiction; the act or process of finding guilty, or the state of being found guilty of any crime by a legal tribunal. "Conviction may accrue two ways."

3.

The act of convincing of error, or of compelling the admission of a truth; confutation. "For all his tedious talk is but vain boast, Or subtle shifts conviction to evade."

4.

The state of being convinced or convicted; strong persuasion or belief; especially, the state of being convicted of sin, or by one's conscience. "To call good evil, and evil good, against the conviction of their own consciences." "And did you presently fall under the power of this conviction?"

Synonyms: Conviction; persuasion. Conviction respects soley matters of belief or faith; persuasion respects matters of belief or practice. Conviction respects our most important duties; persuasion is frequently applied to matters of indifference. Conviction is the result of the (operation of the) understanding; persuasion, of the will. Conviction is a necessity of the mind, persuasion an acquiescence of the inclination. Persuasion often induces men to act in opposition to their conviction of duty.

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"Conviction" Quotes from Famous Books

... said with conviction. "You don't even begin to see yet. You have to fight it for a few months before you really see." He waved the Venusian out the door and turned to Kielland with burden of ten months' frustration in his voice. ...

— The Native Soil • Alan Edward Nourse

... which every one else, save his uncle, had all but forgotten. The plantation and its slaves were still Irby's objective, and though Flora was no less so, any chance that for jealousy of her and Hilary he might throw Anna into Hilary's arms, was offset by his evident conviction that the estate would in that moment be lost to him and that no estate meant no Flora. Madame kept that before him and he thanked ...

— Kincaid's Battery • George W. Cable

... in the executive building were indicted for murder along with Steve and Jason Hawn. Indeed, the Democrats were busy unearthing, as they claimed, a gigantic Republican conspiracy. No less than one hundred thousand dollars was offered as a reward for the conviction of the murderers, and the Republican cry was that with such a sum it was possible to convict even the innocent. In turn, Liberty Leagues were even formed throughout the State to protect the innocent, and lives and property were pledged to ...

— The Heart Of The Hills • John Fox, Jr.

... with segregated units in combat carried weight with the middle-ranking staff officers who, lacking such experience, were charged with devising policy. Behind the opinions expressed by many staff members there seemed to be a nebulous, often unspoken, conviction that Negroes did not perform well in combat. The staff officers who saw proof for their convictions in the troubles of the 24th Infantry ignored the possibility that segregated units, not individual soldiers, was the problem. ...

— Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 • Morris J. MacGregor Jr.

... must the deed itself be noble and just, but also the principle from which we do it must be stable and unchangeable, so that we may make up our minds and then act from conviction. If we do not, then like those epicures who most eagerly seize upon the daintiest food and soonest become satiated and nauseate it, so we become filled with sorrow and remorse when the deed is done, because the splendid ideas of virtue and honour which led ...

— Plutarch's Lives, Volume I (of 4) • Plutarch

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