All 6 Uses

conviction
in
The Waves, by Virginia Woolf
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With my Australian accent I have sat in eating-shops and tried to make the clerks accept me, yet never forgotten my solemn and severe convictions and the discrepancies and incoherences that must be resolved.†
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He speaks with complete conviction.†
I cannot read my book, or order my beef, with conviction.†
Already I no longer cry with conviction, "What luck!"†
Feeling a sudden conviction of immortality, I said, "I too know what Shakespeare knew."†
I cried then with a sudden conviction of complete desertion, Now there is nothing.†

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