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Well, I affirm that my reader is wrong again, for my convictions have nothing to do with my sentence of death.†
Chpt 3.5 *
So that if I cannot now impart all that has tormented me for the last six months, at all events you will understand that, having reached my 'last convictions,' I must have paid a very dear price for them.†
Chpt 3.5
Here was I, with my days numbered, and he, a man in the full vigour of life, living in the present, without the slightest thought for 'final convictions,' or numbers, or days, or, in fact, for anything but that which-which—well, which he was mad about, if he will excuse me the expression—as a feeble author who cannot express his ideas properly.†
Chpt 3.6
By doing this they have been able to persuade themselves, without further trouble, that they have acquired new convictions of their own.†
Chpt 4.1
You must allow, my dear prince...However, of course you value the memory of the deceased so very highly; and he certainly was the kindest of men; to which fact, by the way, I ascribe, more than to anything else, the success of the abbot in influencing his religious convictions.†
Chpt 4.7
I came here today with anxious curiosity; I wished to see for myself and form my own convictions as to whether it were true that the whole of this upper stratum of Russian society is WORTHLESS, has outlived its time, has existed too long, and is only fit to die—and yet is dying with petty, spiteful warring against that which is destined to supersede it and take its place—hindering the Coming Men, and knowing not that itself is in a dying condition.†
Chpt 4.7
Then follows your unheard-of simplicity of heart; then comes your absolute want of sense of proportion (to this want you have several times confessed); and lastly, a mass, an accumulation, of intellectual convictions which you, in your unexampled honesty of soul, accept unquestionably as also innate and natural and true.†
Chpt 4.9
Evgenie Pavlovitch left the house with strange convictions.†
Chpt 4.9
In short, he plainly showed his conviction that a man in his position could have nothing to do with Rogojin and his companions.†
Chpt 1.15
"Yes, he would!" said Rogojin, quietly, but with an air of absolute conviction.†
Chpt 1.15
"I know it for a fact," replied Rogojin, with conviction.†
Chpt 2.3
His conviction was, apparently, unalterable.†
Chpt 2.3
This is a conviction which I have gained while I have been in this Russia of ours.†
Chpt 2.4
Oh, how mean and hideous of him to feel this conviction, this presentiment†
Chpt 2.5
There was nothing particularly significant in the fact that a man was standing back in the doorway, waiting to come out or go upstairs; but the prince felt an irresistible conviction that he knew this man, and that it was Rogojin.†
Chpt 2.5
Their mother was quite angry at the very idea of such a thing, and announced her absolute conviction that he would turn up the next day at latest.†
Chpt 2.6
That it was a jest there was no doubt whatever; he knew that well enough, and had good reason, too, for his conviction; for during her recitation of the ballad Aglaya had deliberately changed the letters A. N. B. into N. P. B. He was quite sure she had not done this by accident, and that his ears had not deceived him.†
Chpt 2.7
Acting on that conviction, you have tried to intimidate me by this publication and to be revenged for my supposed refusal.†
Chpt 2.8
"The prince will forgive me!" said Lebedeff with emotional conviction.†
Chpt 2.10
Now I'll tell you my secret conviction.†
Chpt 2.11
The prince reflected a little, but very soon he replied, with absolute conviction in his tone, though he still spoke somewhat shyly and timidly: "I only wished to say that this 'distortion,' as Evgenie Pavlovitch expressed it, is met with very often, and is far more the general rule than the exception, unfortunately for Russia.†
Chpt 3.1
"But the universal necessity of living, of drinking, of eating—in short, the whole scientific conviction that this necessity can only be satisfied by universal co-operation and the solidarity of interests—is, it seems to me, a strong enough idea to serve as a basis, so to speak, and a 'spring of life,' for humanity in future centuries," said Gavrila Ardalionovitch, now thoroughly roused.†
Chpt 3.4
"It was you," he murmured, almost in a whisper, but with absolute conviction.†
Chpt 3.5
However, a week ago, I called in a medical student, Kislorodoff, who is a Nationalist, an Atheist, and a Nihilist, by conviction, and that is why I had him.†
Chpt 3.5
In a word, I behaved like a fool, and then, at that very same instant, I felt my 'last conviction.'†
Chpt 3.5
I ask myself now how I could have waited six months for that conviction!†
Chpt 3.5
He would walk down the rows of the unfortunate prisoners, stop before each individual and ask after his needs—he never sermonized them; he spoke kindly to them—he gave them money; he brought them all sorts of necessaries for the journey, and gave them devotional books, choosing those who could read, under the firm conviction that they would read to those who could not, as they went along.†
Chpt 3.6
But that evening and that night were sown the first seeds of my 'last conviction.'†
Chpt 3.6
Sometimes, thinking over this, I became quite numb with the terror of it; and I might well have deduced from this fact, that my 'last conviction' was eating into my being too fast and too seriously, and would undoubtedly come to its climax before long.†
Chpt 3.6
Of course, it is all the same to me, but just now—and perhaps only at this moment—I desire that all those who are to judge of my action should see clearly out of how logical a sequence of deductions has at length proceeded my 'last conviction.'†
Chpt 3.6
I hinted nothing to him about my 'final conviction,' but it appeared to me that he had guessed it from my words.†
Chpt 3.6
I remarked to him, as I rose to depart, that, in spite of the contrast and the wide differences between us two, les extremites se touchent ('extremes meet,' as I explained to him in Russian); so that maybe he was not so far from my final conviction as appeared.†
Chpt 3.6
He tells lies by the thousands, I know, but it is merely a weakness; he is a man of the highest feelings; a simple-minded man too, and a man who carries the conviction of innocence in his very appearance.†
Chpt 3.9
How or why it came about that everyone at the Epanchins' became imbued with one conviction—that something very important had happened to Aglaya, and that her fate was in process of settlement—it would be very difficult to explain.†
Chpt 4.5
Of course he could not fail to observe some impatience and ill-temper in Aglaya now and then; but he believed in something else, and nothing could now shake his conviction.†
Chpt 4.5
This is my own personal conviction, and it has long distressed me.†
Chpt 4.7
Will it be believed that, after Aglaya's alarming words, an ineradicable conviction had taken possession of his mind that, however he might try to avoid this vase next day, he must certainly break it?†
Chpt 4.7

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(1) (conviction as in: spoke with conviction)
a strong, firmly held belief
(2) (conviction as in: owed a fine after the conviction)
a court's finding that someone is guilty

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