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- noun Plural form of
conviction .
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Examples
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I also think that the primary reason he isn't acting on his convictions is the political power of the NRA and its supporters.
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I also think that the primary reason he isn't acting on his convictions is the political power of the NRA and its supporters.
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But calling me a troll for arguing according to my convictions is a petty thing to do.
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‘A poor old woman, who has had what you call convictions, — heard voices, or thought she heard them — I forgot to ask her whether they were loud ones.’
Lavengro 2004
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Her theme was what she called convictions of sin, of which by her own account she had wrestled with a surprising quantity; but in the rehearsal of them, though fluent, she seemed to lose heart as her hearers relaxed their attention.
Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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Usually what we call our convictions are propositions which we have not thoroughly examined in quietude, but notions which have just come into our heads and are irreversible to us solely because we are committed to them.
Pages from a Journal with Other Papers Mark Rutherford 1872
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"A poor old woman, who has had what you call convictions, -- heard voices, or thought she heard them -- I forgot to ask her whether they were loud ones."
Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842
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'A poor old woman, who has had what you call convictions, -- heard voices, or thought she heard them -- I forgot to ask her whether they were loud ones. '
Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842
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"A poor old woman, who has had what you call convictions, -- heard voices, or thought she heard them -- I forgot to ask her whether they were loud ones."
Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842
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"A poor old woman, who has had what you call convictions, -- heard voices, or thought she heard them -- I forgot to ask her whether they were loud ones."
Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2) George Henry Borrow 1842
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