All 32 Uses
conviction
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
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- At his first visit, indeed, he told us that he was a practical man, but still he shares, as he expressed it, many of the convictions 'of our most rising generation' and he is an opponent of all prejudices.†
Chpt 1.3
- He seemed to some of his comrades to look down upon them all as children, as though he were superior in development, knowledge and convictions, as though their beliefs and interests were beneath him.†
Chpt 1.4
- She could give way and accept a great deal even of what was contrary to her convictions, but there was a certain barrier fixed by honesty, principle and the deepest convictions which nothing would induce her to cross.†
Chpt 3.1
- She could give way and accept a great deal even of what was contrary to her convictions, but there was a certain barrier fixed by honesty, principle and the deepest convictions which nothing would induce her to cross.†
Chpt 3.1
- I heard so yesterday...so that's what your convictions amount to...and the woman question, too, wasn't quite sound, he-he-he!" and Pyotr Petrovitch, as though comforted, went back to clicking his beads.†
Chpt 5.1
- We have gone further in our convictions.†
Chpt 5.1
- I never touch vodka, for it's against my convictions.†
Chpt 5.3
- Could it be simply to conceal it from me, knowing that my convictions are opposed to yours and that I do not approve of private benevolence, which effects no radical cure?†
Chpt 5.3
- I regard you in any case as a man of noble character and not without elements of magnanimity, though I don't agree with all your convictions.†
Chpt 6.2 *
- In misery he asked himself this question, and could not understand that, at the very time he had been standing looking into the river, he had perhaps been dimly conscious of the fundamental falsity in himself and his convictions.†
Chpt Epil.
- It was his conviction that this eclipse of reason and failure of will power attacked a man like a disease, developed gradually and reached its highest point just before the perpetration of the crime, continued with equal violence at the moment of the crime and for longer or shorter time after, according to the individual case, and then passed off like any other disease.†
Chpt 1.6
- By degrees he passed to the conviction that if the summer garden were extended to the field of Mars, and perhaps joined to the garden of the Mihailovsky Palace, it would be a splendid thing and a great benefit to the town.†
Chpt 1.6
- The conviction that all his faculties, even memory, and the simplest power of reflection were failing him, began to be an insufferable torture.†
Chpt 2.1
- For my part it's my firm conviction, that he will end in a debtor's prison again.†
Chpt 4.2
- This conviction was strengthened by his vanity and conceit, a conceit to the point of fatuity.†
Chpt 4.3
- The conviction grew stronger in him that if that enigmatic man of yesterday, that phantom sprung out of the earth, had seen everything, they would not have let him stand and wait like that.†
Chpt 4.5
- However his health seemed unimpaired so far, and looking at his noble, clear-skinned countenance which had grown fattish of late, Pyotr Petrovitch for an instant was positively comforted in the conviction that he would find another bride and, perhaps, even a better one.†
Chpt 5.1
- I think, that is, it is my own personal conviction that this is the normal condition of women.†
Chpt 5.1
- Though Katerina Ivanovna tried to appear to be disdainfully unaware of it, she raised her voice and began at once speaking with conviction of Sonia's undoubted ability to assist her, of "her gentleness, patience, devotion, generosity and good education," tapping Sonia on the cheek and kissing her warmly twice.†
Chpt 5.2
- I will add further and repeat that in spite of my positive conviction, I realise that I run a certain risk in making this accusation, but as you see, I could not let it pass.†
Chpt 5.3
- He had spoken with such vehemence, with such conviction that everyone obviously believed him.†
Chpt 5.3
- His decisive voice, his tone of conviction and his stern face made a great impression on everyone.†
Chpt 5.3
- "Do you know, Sonia," he said suddenly with conviction, "let me tell you: if I'd simply killed because I was hungry," laying stress on every word and looking enigmatically but sincerely at her, "I should be happy now.†
Chpt 5.4
- "Yes, yes, better," she repeated with conviction, "when you go to meet your suffering, then put it on.†
Chpt 5.4
- Is it your conviction that he won't?†
Chpt 5.5
- There is a conviction in the air that you are mad or very nearly so.†
Chpt 6.1
- Such words, such gestures had passed between them, they had exchanged such glances, things had been said in such a tone and had reached such a pass, that Nikolay, whom Porfiry had seen through at the first word, at the first gesture, could not have shaken his conviction.†
Chpt 6.1
- You are the murderer," he added, almost in a whisper, in a voice of genuine conviction.†
Chpt 6.2
- "No, it was you, you Rodion Romanovitch, and no one else," Porfiry whispered sternly, with conviction.†
Chpt 6.2
- And how angry she was with me when I explained to her at last that it was my sincere conviction that she was just as eager as I. Poor Marfa Petrovna was awfully weak on the side of flattery, and if I had only cared to, I might have had all her property settled on me during her lifetime.†
Chpt 6.4
- It's my personal conviction that you are perfectly right—violence is hateful.†
Chpt 6.5
- He fell to musing by what process it could come to pass, that he could be humbled before all of them, indiscriminately—humbled by conviction.†
Chpt 6.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(conviction as in: spoke with conviction) a strong, firmly held belief
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(2)
(conviction as in: owed a fine after the conviction) a court's finding that someone is guilty