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conviction
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The Brothers Karamazov
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And this was terrible, for their words had great influence on young monks who were not yet firm in their convictions.†
Chpt 7 *
The question is what are my convictions, not what is my age, isn't it?†
Chpt 10
When you are older, you'll understand for yourself the influence of age on convictions.†
Chpt 10
There had been talk about Smerdyakov before the trial; some one had heard something, some one had pointed out something else, it was said that Alyosha had gathered together some extraordinary proofs of his brother's innocence and Smerdyakov's guilt, and after all there was nothing, no evidence except certain moral convictions so natural in a brother.†
Chpt 12
In the sphere of actual life, which has, indeed, its own rights, but also lays upon us great duties and obligations, in that sphere, if we want to be humane—Christian, in fact—we must, or ought to, act only upon convictions justified by reason and experience, which have been passed through the crucible of analysis; in a word, we must act rationally, and not as though in dream and delirium, that we may not do harm, that we may not ill-treat and ruin a man.†
Chpt 12
The conviction that after his death the elder would bring extraordinary glory to the monastery was even stronger in Alyosha than in any one there, and, of late, a kind of deep flame of inner ecstasy burnt more and more strongly in his heart.†
Chpt 1
"I suspected all my life that it wasn't true," Fyodor Pavlovitch cried with conviction.†
Chpt 2
"Is that really your conviction as to the consequences of the disappearance of the faith in immortality?" the elder asked Ivan suddenly.†
Chpt 2
The conviction that a great inevitable catastrophe was about to happen grew stronger in Alyosha's mind with every hour.†
Chpt 5
But yet all his life he loved humanity, and suddenly his eyes were opened, and he saw that it is no great moral blessedness to attain perfection and freedom, if at the same time one gains the conviction that millions of God's creatures have been created as a mockery, that they will never be capable of using their freedom, that these poor rebels can never turn into giants to complete the tower, that it was not for such geese that the great idealist dreamt his dream of harmony.†
Chpt 5
In his old age he reached the clear conviction that nothing but the advice of the great dread spirit could build up any tolerable sort of life for the feeble, unruly, 'incomplete, empirical creatures created in jest.'†
Chpt 5
But for some unknown reason he had long entertained the conviction that the old reprobate, who was lying at death's door, would perhaps not at all object now to Grushenka's securing a respectable position, and marrying a man "to be depended upon."†
Chpt 8
Whether it was the "captain's" excited face, or the foolish conviction of the "rake and spendthrift," that he, Samsonov, could be taken in by such a cock-and-bull story as his scheme, or his jealousy of Grushenka, in whose name this "scapegrace" had rushed in on him with such a tale to get money which worked on the old man, I can't tell.†
Chpt 8
Pyotr Ilyitch persisted in returning to this point, and though he found out nothing conclusive, yet he carried away a conviction that Dmitri Fyodorovitch could have gone nowhere but to his father's house, and that therefore something must have happened there.†
Chpt 9
From my conviction—my impression.†
Chpt 9
Oh, of course, I don't know how to make these fine distinctions ...but a thief is lower than a scoundrel, that's my conviction.†
Chpt 9
"That's true," assented Smurov suddenly, in a ringing tone of conviction.†
Chpt 10
Conceit may be, that comes from youth, that will be corrected if need be, but, on the other hand, there is an independent spirit almost from childhood, boldness of thought and conviction, and not the spirit of these sausage makers, groveling before authority....But the German was right all the same.†
Chpt 10
That's my conviction—not conviction, but feeling.†
Chpt 11
That's my conviction—not conviction, but feeling.†
Chpt 11
You won't go to give evidence," Smerdyakov decided with conviction.†
Chpt 11
But all were interested in the trial, and the majority of the men were certainly hoping for the conviction of the criminal, except perhaps the lawyers, who were more interested in the legal than in the moral aspect of the case.†
Chpt 12
Let me assure you that I fully believe in the complete sincerity of your conviction and do not explain it by or identify it with your affection for your unhappy brother.†
Chpt 12
And so I think it essential to press you to tell me what facts have led you to this conviction of your brother's innocence and of the guilt of another person against whom you gave evidence at the preliminary inquiry?†
Chpt 12
But we know that for the last two months he has completely shared our conviction of his brother's guilt and did not attempt to combat that idea.†
Chpt 12
He began very simply and directly, with an air of conviction, but not the slightest trace of conceit.†
Chpt 12
He went straight to the point, and began by saying that although he practiced in Petersburg, he had more than once visited provincial towns to defend prisoners, of whose innocence he had a conviction or at least a preconceived idea.†
Chpt 12
Oh, I fully share the court's and the prosecutor's conviction that Ivan Karamazov is suffering from brain fever, that his statement may really be a desperate effort, planned in delirium, to save his brother by throwing the guilt on the dead man.†
Chpt 12
He made a very definite impression on me: I left him with the conviction that he was a distinctly spiteful creature, excessively ambitious, vindictive, and intensely envious.†
Chpt 12
The deathlike silence in the court was not broken—all seemed petrified: those who desired his conviction as well as those who had been eager for his acquittal.†
Chpt 12

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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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