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conviction
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But she argued with them with such an absence of bile, such a concentration of manlove, that they felt their convictions solidified by her disagreement.†
Chpt 1921 *
A woman who won all social battles with presence and a conviction of the legitimacy of her authority.†
Chpt 1920
And when they thought of all that life and death locked into that little closed coffin they danced and screamed, not to protest God's will but to acknowledge it and confirm once more their conviction that the only way to avoid the Hand of God is to get in it.†
Chpt 1922
Their conviction of Sula's evil changed them in accountable yet mysterious ways.†
Chpt 1939

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