Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The judgment of a jury or judge that a person is guilty of a crime as charged.
- noun The state of being found or proved guilty.
- noun The act or process of convincing.
- noun The state or appearance of being convinced.
- noun A fixed or strong belief. synonym: view.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of convincing one of the truth of something; especially, the act of convincing of error; confutation.
- noun The state of being convinced or fully persuaded; strong belief on the ground of satisfactory reasons or evidence; the conscious assent of the mind; settled persuasion; a fixed or firm belief: as, an opinion amounting to conviction; he felt a strong conviction of coming deliverance.
- noun Specifically The state of being convinced that one is or has been acting in opposition to conscience; the state of being convicted of wrong-doing or sin; strong admonition of the conscience; religious compunction.
- noun The act of proving or finding guilty of an offense charged; especially, the finding by a jury or other legal tribunal that the person on trial is guilty of the offense charged: sometimes used as implying judgment or sentence.
- noun The state of being convicted or confuted; condemnation upon proof or reasoning; confutation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of convicting; the act of proving, finding, or adjudging, guilty of an offense.
- noun (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.
- noun The act of convincing of error, or of compelling the admission of a truth; confutation.
- noun The state of being convinced or convicted; strong persuasion or belief; especially, the state of being convicted of sin, or by one's conscience.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun countable A firmly held
belief . - noun countable A
judgement ofguilt in a court of law. - noun uncountable The state of being found or proved guilty.
- noun uncountable The state of being convinced.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an unshakable belief in something without need for proof or evidence
- noun (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed
Etymologies
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Examples
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Strength into whose keeping it is given, making, in Goethe's words, "every man strong enough to enforce his conviction," -- his _conviction_, mark!
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This conviction is the basis for many long-standing misconceptions about France and its system of social benefits.
Debra Ollivier: What's Wrong with the (Fighting) French? Debra Ollivier 2010
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It may be better to refrain from notifying the neighborhood, but of course you can never prevent others from notifying the neighborhood, since the conviction is a matter of public record.
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ShelbyC: It may be better to refrain from notifying the neighborhood, but of course you can never prevent others from notifying the neighborhood, since the conviction is a matter of public record.
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This conviction is the basis for many long-standing misconceptions about France and its system of social benefits.
Debra Ollivier: What's Wrong with the (Fighting) French? Debra Ollivier 2010
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This conviction is the basis for many long-standing misconceptions about France and its system of social benefits.
Debra Ollivier: What's Wrong with the (Fighting) French? Debra Ollivier 2010
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This conviction is the source not only of Protestantism's vitality and flexibility, but also of its lack of fixedness and its innate tendency toward schism.
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This conviction is the basis for many long-standing misconceptions about France and its system of social benefits.
Debra Ollivier: What's Wrong with the (Fighting) French? Debra Ollivier 2010
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An expensive s. 18 trial with no guarantee of a conviction is a no-no. on July 22, 2009 at 10: 08 pm TheBinarySurfer
The Reality Behind The Crime Figues « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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This conviction is the basis for many long-standing misconceptions about France and its system of social benefits.
Debra Ollivier: What's Wrong with the (Fighting) French? Debra Ollivier 2010
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