conviction
Example Sentences
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“Definitely,” I said with every ounce of conviction I could muster.
From Literature
Milne had previously been on bail but was remanded in custody following his conviction.
From BBC
He doesn’t relate to the historicist’s patient conviction that an Iranian Thermidor lies ahead.
The volunteers faced charges, including “abandonment of property” and felony harboring, though the convictions for some were later overturned.
From Los Angeles Times
Like others in the exhibition, she shared the convictions that the source of art was the unconscious and that the artist’s role was to reveal the unseen, not to depict the known.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
