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conviction
noun
1 conviction
An unshakable belief in something without need for proof or evidence.
synonyms: article of faith, strong belief.
Roget 479:
confutation,
refutation;
answer,
complete answer;
disproof,
conviction,
redargution†,
invalidation;
exposure,
exposition;
clincher;
retort;
reductio ad absurdum;
knock down argument,
tu quoque argument [Lat.];
sockdolager [U.S.],
correction
etc.
572.1;
dissuasion
etc.
616.
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Roget 484:
belief;
credence;
credit;
assurance;
faith,
trust,
troth,
confidence,
presumption,
sanguine expectation
etc.
(hope)
858;
dependence on,
reliance on.
persuasion,
conviction,
convincement†,
plerophory†,
self-conviction;
certainty
etc.
474;
opinion,
mind,
view;
conception,
thinking;
impression
etc.
(idea)
453;
surmise
etc.
514;
conclusion
etc.
(judgment)
480.
tenet,
dogma,
principle,
way of thinking;
popular belief
etc.
(assent)
488.
firm belief,
implicit belief,
settled belief,
fixed rooted deep-rooted belief,
staunch belief,
unshaken belief,
steadfast belief,
inveterate belief,
calm belief,
sober belief,
dispassionate belief,
impartial belief,
well-founded belief,
firm opinion,
implicit opinion,
settled opinion,
fixed rooted deep-rooted opinion,
staunch opinion,
unshaken opinion,
steadfast opinion,
inveterate opinion,
calm opinion,
sober opinion,
dispassionate opinion,
impartial opinion,
well-founded opinion
&c.;
uberrima fides [Lat.].
system of opinions,
school,
doctrine,
articles,
canons;
article of faith,
declaration of faith,
profession of faith;
tenets,
credenda†,
creed;
thirty-nine articles
etc.
(orthodoxy)
983.1;
catechism;
assent
etc.
488;
propaganda
etc.
(teaching)
537.
credibility
etc.
(probability)
472.
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Dutch: overtuiging
Polish: przekonanie
2 conviction
criminal law A final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed:
— The conviction came as no surprise.
synonyms: condemnation, judgment of conviction, sentence.
Roget 971:
condemnation,
conviction,
judgment,
penalty,
sentence;
proscription,
damnation;
death warrant.
attainder,
attainture†,
attaintment†.
Dutch: oordeel, vonnis, zin, straf, uitspraak, veroordeling
Polish: wyrok skazujÄ…cy
Roget 478:
demonstration,
proof,
rigorous proof;
conclusiveness
etc.
adj.;
apodeixis†,
apodixis†,
probation,
comprobation†.
logic of facts
etc.
(evidence)
467;
experimentum crucis
etc.
(test)
463 [Lat.];
argument
etc.
476;
rigorous establishment,
absolute establishment.
conviction,
cogency,
(persuasion)
484.
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Moby thesaurus: anathematizing, arrogance, aspiration, assumption, assurance, assured faith, assuredness, belief, censure, certainty, certitude, cheerful expectation, cocksureness, condemnation, confidence, confidentness, courage, damnation, death sentence, death warrant, denouncement, denunciation, dependence, desire, doctrine, dogma, doom, doomed hope, excommunication, expectation, eye, fair prospect, faith, feeling, fervent hope, fixed opinion, good cheer, good hope, great expectations, guilty verdict, high hopes, hope, hopeful prognosis, hopefulness, hopes, hoping, hoping against hope, hubris, implicit belief, judgment, mature judgment, mind, opinion, overconfidence, oversureness, overweening, overweeningness, persuasion, poise, pomposity, position, positiveness, prayerful hope, presumption, pride, promise, proscription, prospect, prospects, rap, reliance, sanguine expectation, security, self-assurance, self-confidence, self-importance, self-reliance, sentence, sentiment, settled belief, settled judgment, staunch belief, steadfast faith, subjective certainty, sureness, surety, tenet, trust, unshaken confidence, verdict of guilty, view, well-grounded hope ... show more.
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