All 24 Uses
conviction
in
The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
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- We've the faculty of admiration and several capital convictions.†
Chpt 35
- She thought she had forgiven him; she believed she didn't care; and as she was both very generous and very proud these convictions represented a certain reality.†
Chpt 39 *
- This disposition was tested, eventually, by that ingenious apology for her present conduct which Madame Merle saw fit to make and of which I have given a sketch; for there was something irritating—there was almost an air of mockery—in her neat discriminations and clear convictions.†
Chpt 40
- Of course you've made up your mind that with those convictions I'm dreadful company for Pansy.†
Chpt 50
- "My dear Amy," he answered, smiling as if he were uttering a piece of gallantry, "I don't know anything about your convictions, but if I suspected that they interfere with mine it would be much simpler to banish YOU."†
Chpt 50
- She considered, with the presumption of youth, that a morality differing from her own must be inferior to it; and this conviction was an aid to detecting an occasional flash of cruelty, an occasional lapse from candour, in the conversation of a person who had raised delicate kindness to an art and whose pride was too high for the narrow ways of deception.†
Chpt 31
- It could be nothing in the least soothing—she had warrant for this, and the conviction doubtless showed in the cloud on her brow.†
Chpt 32
- "That's very selfish of you!" she returned with the ardour of a real conviction.†
Chpt 32
- Isabel had uttered her last words with a low solemnity of conviction which virtually terminated the discussion, and she closed it formally by turning away and walking back to the house.†
Chpt 34
- What had become of all her ardours, her aspirations, her theories, her high estimate of her independence and her incipient conviction that she should never marry?†
Chpt 35
- That she would always be a child was the conviction expressed by her father, who held her by the hand when she was in her sixteenth year and told her to go and play while he sat down a little with the pretty lady.†
Chpt 35
- It was Isabel's view that the little girl might have given lessons in deportment to her relative, and nothing could have justified this conviction more than the manner in which Pansy acquitted herself while they waited together for the Countess.†
Chpt 35
- But Rosier was haunted by the conviction that at picturesque periods young girls had been shut up there to keep them from their true loves, and hen, under the threat of being thrown into convents, had been forced into unholy marriages.†
Chpt 36
- She had decided that the best way of pleasing her was negative, and consisted in not giving her trouble—a conviction which certainly could have had no reference to trouble already existing.†
Chpt 40
- This supreme conviction had filled her life for months, and enough of it still remained to prove to her that she could not have done otherwise.†
Chpt 42
- This at least was her present conviction; and the thing certainly would have been easier than to care for society as Osmond cared for it.†
Chpt 42
- Isabel had an undefined conviction that to serve for another person than their proprietor traditions must be of a thoroughly superior kind; but she nevertheless assented to this intimation that she too must march to the stately music that floated down from unknown periods in her husband's past; she who of old had been so free of step, so desultory, so devious, so much the reverse of processional.†
Chpt 42
- There was a conviction in the way she said this, and a felicity in her believing it, which conduced to Isabel's awkwardness.†
Chpt 45
- Such a conviction as that will take you a great way.†
Chpt 46
- It was her conviction at least that she deceived him, made him say to himself that he had been misinformed.†
Chpt 47
- After this she had paid him a daily visit—always under the conviction that they were great enemies.†
Chpt 47
- She found herself confronted in this manner with the conviction that the man in the world whom she had supposed to be the least sordid had married her, like a vulgar adventurer, for her money.†
Chpt 49
- She made her reflexions, Isabel was sure; and she must have had a conviction that there were husbands and wives who were more intimate than that.†
Chpt 52
- And at moments there was something inspiring, almost enlivening, in the conviction.†
Chpt 53
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