All 13 Uses
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- Very likely he would not have believed those even from Joe's mouth, since men of his kind usually have just as firmly fixed convictions about the mechanics, the theatring of evil as about those of good.†
Chpt 9 *
- He lived by his principles in peace, and when war came he carried them into war and lived by them there; when there was preaching on peaceful Sundays in quiet groves to be done, he had done it, without any particular equipment for it other than his will and his convictions and what he could pick up as he went along; when there was the saving of wounded men under fire and the curing of them without proper tools, he did that too, again without other equipment save his strength and courage and what he could pick up as he went along.†
Chpt 20
- But the town did not believe that the ladies had forgot those previous mysterious trips, with Memphis as their destination and for that purpose regarding which all had the same conviction, though none ever put it into words, spoke it aloud, since the town believed that good women don't forget things easily, good or bad, lest the taste and savor of forgiveness die from the palate of conscience.†
Chpt 3
- He contrived at once to apologise without surrendering one jot of his conviction.†
Chpt 6
- He turned into the road at that slow and ponderous gallop, the two of them, man and beast, leaning a little stiffly forward as though in some juggernautish simulation of terrific speed though the actual speed itself was absent, as if in that cold and implacable and undeviating conviction of both omnipotence and clairvoyance of which they both partook known destination and speed were not necessary.†
Chpt 9
- Yet she did it with such fury, with such convincingness and such conviction, that on the first occasion he thought that she was under a delusion and the third time he thought that she was mad.†
Chpt 12
- They were calm and still as all pity and all despair and all conviction.†
Chpt 12
- They speak quietly, without heat, giving pause to weigh one another's words, as two men already impregnable, each in his own conviction will.†
Chpt 13
- After that he was downtown all day long, about the square, untalkative, dirty, with that furious and preclusive expression about the eyes which the people took for insanity: that quality of outworn violence like a scent, an odor; that fanaticism like a fading and almost extinct ember, of some kind of twofisted evangelism which had been one quarter violent conviction and three quarters physical hardihood.†
Chpt 15
- The desire of this moment is more than desire: it is conviction quiet and assured; before he is aware that his brain has telegraphed his hand he has turned the mule from the road and is galloping along the ridge which parallels the running man's course when he entered the woods.†
Chpt 18
- But I believe that, having got started physically by the tide of the old man's insanity and conviction, before she knew it she had been swept away too.†
Chpt 19
- Though when he learned that the Republicans did have a name for it, he completely changed the name of his conviction without abating his principles or behavior one jot.†
Chpt 20
- It was as though the very cold and uncompromising conviction which propped him upright, as it were, between puritan and cavalier, had become not defeated and not discouraged, but wiser.†
Chpt 20
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