Definition of Conviction

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Conviction

The act of convicting; the act of proving, finding, or adjudging, guilty of an offense.

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.

The act of convincing of error, or of compelling the admission of a truth; confutation.

The state of being convinced or convicted; strong persuasion or belief; especially, the state of being convicted of sin, or by one's conscience.

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Conviction Quotations

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Albert Einstein

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
Albert Einstein

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
Muhammad Ali

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
Mohandas Gandhi

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Blaise Pascal

It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.
R. Lee Ermey

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
John Steinbeck

Constant repetition carries conviction.
Robert Collier

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw

Conviction Translations

conviction in Dutch is overtuiging
conviction in French is conviction
conviction in Spanish is condena

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