Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act, process, or fact of convincing, or of being convinced; conviction.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare Act of convincing, or state of being convinced; conviction.

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  • noun The act of convincing, or state of being convinced; conviction.

Etymologies

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convince +‎ -ment

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Examples

  • So, nullasalus, you can't just "form your own committee", and acceptance of one's "convincement" is indeed recognized by the only "authority" that exists in the Society of Friends: the meeting itself, acting as a corporate entity.

    Blind Faith? 2009

  • So, nullasalus, you can't just "form your own committee", and acceptance of one's "convincement" is indeed recognized by the only "authority" that exists in the Society of Friends: the meeting itself, acting as a corporate entity.

    Blind Faith? 2009

  • No doubt it is true, as we have before said, that literature being nothing but the reflex of the life of man, or else of the life of nature, the final quest of every form of literature is that special kind of convincement which is inherently suitable to the special form.

    Old Familiar Faces Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873

  • One becomes a Friend by "convincement" and by asking one's local monthly meeting for a committee on clearness to accept your membership in the meeting.

    Blind Faith? 2009

  • Erhman, by virtue of once having been a member of a Christian congregation and having subsequently left it was indeed formerly a Christian who has since become an agnostic by "convincement".

    Blind Faith? 2009

  • One becomes a Friend by "convincement" and by asking one's local monthly meeting for a committee on clearness to accept your membership in the meeting.

    Blind Faith? 2009

  • Comans were the early leaders and pillars of the Amsterdam _Collegium_, which was begun in 1645, and some years later the group was greatly strengthened by the "convincement" of the young Mennonite doctor and

    Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries Rufus Matthew Jones 1905

  • But don't let their "convincement" feel like a noose around your faith-neck.

    QuakerQuaker.org 2009

  • But don't let their "convincement" feel like a noose around your faith-neck.

    QuakerQuaker.org 2009

  • Amid a tug-of-war over a key endorsement from Senator Thompson (Jeffrey Wright), Stevie is soon staring down tumult and at the center of power plays whipped around by reporter Ida Horowicz (Marisa Tomei), Duffy, and Morris's campaign manager, Paul Zara, who is portrayed by Philip Seymour Hoffman with such convincement one can just about smell the cheap coffee on his breath.

    Felice Arenas: George Clooney: 'Hollywood Could Teach a Lot to Politicians' Felice Arenas 2011

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