Antonym: acquittal. Similar words: convict, fiction, convention, prediction, restriction, conversation, conventional, jurisdiction. Meaning: [-kʃn] 
n. 1. an unshakable belief in something without need for proof or evidence 2. (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed.
n. 1. an unshakable belief in something without need for proof or evidence 2. (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed. 
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91) Maxwell could spend some time in the slammer for failing to keep up with court-ordered guidelines after a marijuana conviction.
92) If the other evidence was good enough they could secure a conviction on that alone.
93) He only had one tiny conviction for shoplifting so far, and felt sure that wouldn't be held against him.
94) There are many reasons why people have a diminished sense of personal conviction.
95) The fact that they do not believe with any great conviction the theories underlying the shocks,(www.Sentencedict.com) makes their task even harder.
96) I felt no great assurance of comfort, but my conviction of evil grew a little less.
97) Believe he could not, and at the same time he had no firm conviction that all was untrue.
98) It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way. Thich Nhat Hanh 
99) To do that, it takes a person of strong conviction and real guts.
100) Our conviction is that the term knowledge worker needs to be very broadly defined.
101) Internationalists had their explanations for that, of course, but these failed to carry conviction in the face of the facts.
102) The nuns do not, as a matter of religious conviction, use such modern conveniences, but city bureaucrats were implacable.
103) Americans held the conviction that anyone could become rich if they worked hard.
104) The southern conviction that the Republicans were bitter enemies of slavery precipitated this decision.
105) The Court of Appeal allowed the appellant's appeal against conviction of committing an act of gross indecency.
106) Aline's insight underlined my conviction on holiday that this was one tale not for retelling.
107) There is no iron in the new faith because it lacks personal conviction.
108) By the early 1820s conviction grew amongst reformers that it was not.
109) And he sold all his possessions to finance appeals against his conviction.
110) Citizenship status would have insulated her from deportation even after her drug conviction.
111) McVeigh was condemned to death after his conviction on identical charges in June.
112) He brought to his office a conviction that a bishop had a dual responsibility to serve both church and monarchy.
113) But even they seemed to be going through the motions,[sentencedict.com] quite without conviction.
114) Congress may adopt a racial-justice amendment that would allow blacks to appeal against conviction on the ground of systematic racial bias.
115) Her grandfather had suggested, without conviction, that she might be of some use in the farm office.
116) Lozano was allowed to remain free on bail while appealing against his conviction.
117) But, for a few months, de Lattre infused his troops with the conviction that they might redress the dismal situation.
118) The reader may not be persuaded by some of the cases, but the whole mass of them carries conviction.
119) Only when the cause of the doubt has been understood and dealt with can faith be re-engaged and personal conviction encouraged.
120) He replied that this was one anecdote of Surkov's which had seemed to carry conviction.
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