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conviction
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Jude the Obscure
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"I won't disturb your convictions—I really won't!" she went on soothingly, for now he was rather more ruffled than she.†
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Yet such was his obstinate and illogical disregard of opinion, and of the principles in which he had been trained, that his convictions on the rightness of his course with his wife had not been disturbed.†
Part 6
This conviction was so real with him that one day when, as was frequent, he was at work in a neighbouring village church alone, he felt it to be his duty to pray against his weakness.†
Part 2
Jude had a conviction that his unhappy visit to her on that sad night had precipitated this marriage engagement, and it did anything but add to his happiness.†
Part 3
At sight of this Sue's nerves utterly gave way, an awful conviction that her discourse with the boy had been the main cause of the tragedy, throwing her into a convulsive agony which knew no abatement.†
Part 6
Jude argued, urged, implored; but her conviction was proof against all.†
Part 6
Don't think me hard because I have acted on conviction.†
Part 6
Yet a conviction possessed Arabella that he had gone out, and it became a certainty when she had searched the house.†
Part 6

Definitions:

(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