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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

... civil service, Jefferson, it is true, made many removals from office, some doubtless unwise and even unjust; but in judging of these we must remember his profound and unquestionably honest conviction that the Federalists lacked patriotism. It was this belief which dictated his prosecution, almost persecution, of Burr, whom Federalists openly ...

— History of the United States, Volume 2 (of 6) • E. Benjamin Andrews

... that they generally make use of them for guides from one jurisdiction to another; for there is nothing left them by which they can rob or be the better for it, since, as they are disarmed, so the very having of money is a sufficient conviction: and as they are certainly punished if discovered, so they cannot hope to escape; for their habit being in all the parts of it different from what is commonly worn, they cannot fly away, unless they would go naked, ...

— Utopia • Thomas More

... her, I saw that he could hardly bear, for downright agony, to look into her face, for he was stricken with the conviction that she was ...

— The Worlds Greatest Books - Vol. II: Fiction • Arthur Mee, J. A. Hammerton, Eds.

... last man," said Courtenay quietly with that conviction that can only be arrived at in one way, and that ...

— King--of the Khyber Rifles • Talbot Mundy

... lady's part which Desire began increasingly to doubt. She had already reached the point when it seemed impossible that anyone should not admire what to her was entirely admirable. Even the explanation of a prior attachment (the "Someone Else" of the professor's story), did not carry conviction. Who else could there be—compared ...

— The Window-Gazer • Isabel Ecclestone Mackay

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