All 23 Uses
conviction
in
The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1
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- I haven't many convictions; but I have three or four that I hold strongly.†
Chpt 18
- With many of these amiable colonists Mrs. Touchett was intimate; she shared their expatriation, their convictions, their pastimes, their ennui.†
Chpt 20 *
- I can't be a clergyman; I haven't got convictions.†
Chpt 20
- It was not to the credit of her absolute rectitude that she should have gone the longest way round to Florence in order to spend a few weeks with her invalid son; since in former years it had been one of her most definite convictions that when Ralph wished to see her he was at liberty to remember that Palazzo Crescentini contained a large apartment known as the quarter of the signorino.†
Chpt 21
- Besides this, as I have said, he could have counted off most of the successive owners and occupants, several of whom were known to general fame; doing so, however, with an undemonstrative conviction that the latest phase of its destiny was not the least honourable.†
Chpt 1
- The first on the list was a conviction of the vulgarity of thinking too much of it.†
Chpt 6
- The door was fastened, and though he had keys in his pocket he had a conviction that none of them would fit.†
Chpt 7
- Henrietta expressed the opinion that American hotels were the best in the world, and Mrs. Touchett, fresh from a renewed struggle with them, recorded a conviction that they were the worst.†
Chpt 11
- I had come to see you with the hope that you would let me bring you over to my conviction; my reasons for entertaining this hope had been of the best.†
Chpt 11
- His words had carried perfect conviction with them; she felt she did, all so mysteriously, matter to him.†
Chpt 12
- With no more outward light on the subject than he already possessed he suddenly acquired the conviction that it would be a sovereign injustice to the correspondent of the Interviewer to assign a dishonourable motive to any act of hers.†
Chpt 13
- This conviction passed into his mind with extreme rapidity; it was perhaps kindled by the pure radiance of the young lady's imperturbable gaze.†
Chpt 13
- The latter clause of Ralph's argument might have seemed incoherent; but it embodied his conviction that if Mr. Goodwood were interested in Isabel in the serious manner described by Miss Stackpole he would not care to present himself at Gardencourt on a summons from the latter lady.†
Chpt 13
- "That's a flattering conviction," said Isabel without alarm.†
Chpt 17
- She sometimes asked herself what Henrietta Stackpole would say to her thinking so much of this perverted product of their common soil, and had a conviction that it would be severely judged.†
Chpt 19
- At table she was grave and silent; but her solemnity was not an attitude—Isabel could see it was a conviction.†
Chpt 19
- There was a certain cynicism in these mute comments which demands an explanation; the more so as they are not in accord either with the view—somewhat superficial perhaps—that we have hitherto enjoyed of Madame Merle's character or with the literal facts of Mrs. Touchett's history; the more so, too, as Madame Merle had a well-founded conviction that her friend's last remark was not in the least to be construed as a side-thrust at herself.†
Chpt 20
- "If you like I won't listen," Pansy suggested with an appearance of candour which imposed conviction.†
Chpt 22
- I've seen the girl but this once," said the Countess, "and the conviction has suddenly come to me.†
Chpt 25
- Your brother, like an intelligent man, has had the conviction of it if he has not had the proofs.†
Chpt 25
- Ralph looked forward to a fourth, a fifth, a tenth besieger; he had no conviction she would stop at a third.†
Chpt 26
- Otherwise, a week hence, we shall have my niece arriving at the conviction that her mission in life's to prove that a stepmother may sacrifice herself—and that, to prove it, she must first become one.†
Chpt 26
- Mr. Osmond's talk was not injured by the indication of an eagerness to shine; Isabel found no difficulty in believing that a person was sincere who had so many of the signs of strong conviction—as for instance an explicit and graceful appreciation of anything that might be said on his own side of the question, said perhaps by Miss Archer in especial.†
Chpt 26
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