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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
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
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
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

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(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

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