All 14 Uses
conviction
in
The Lords of Discipline
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- He had also resolved in his own mind, through beginning to believe in his own convictions, through his own slow unravelings of the great questions of his time, his own readings and interpretations of those readings, and his own colloquies and interrogations with his secret self, that he had no quarrel, absolutely none, with the Vietnamese.†
Chpt 1.10
- At the Institute, I had learned to be cautious, to distrust the insistence of myown convictions, to cover my tracks, to walk invisibly through the Corps, without drawing too much attention to myself.†
Chpt 1.15 *
- His voice controlled the audience by the power and conviction of his fervent, undistilled belief.†
Chpt 1.7
- His voice, fervent and evangelical, carried with it an absolute conviction of the rectitude and efficacy of a society ruled by honor; it quavered slightly and conveyed the earnestness and gentle decency of the speaker.†
Chpt 1.9
- War is a religious conviction to an eighteen-year-old boy, and though it later became hard for me to relate to that boy, I had at least to acknowledge the sincerity of his passionate, blazing idealism and his total willingness to sacrifice his life for his country.†
Chpt 1.10
- I viewed myself quite artlessly as a prince among men, a real sweetheart, and my entrance into the masculine province of the Corps had only served to strengthen my conviction that I was at least as virtuous as the majority of my fellow human beings.†
Chpt 1.10
- "I will not have this in my room," Tradd spoke again, with conviction and with a determined look on his face.†
Chpt 1.10
- Their presence was an articulate tribute to the force and puissance of men united by indivisible will, by absolute conviction.†
Chpt 2.16
- You're such a slob, Will," Tradd said with conviction.†
Chpt 3.25
- He paused and with a voice almost undone by emotion and conviction said in a clear ringing pronouncement, "Gentlemen, at this moment, and according to the powers invested in me by the Board of Visitors, I command you now to wear the ring, the ring that you and you alone so gallantly and resolutely have earned."†
Chpt 3.26
- She protested but it was a protest without conviction.†
Chpt 4.31
- This is because we love our roommate and would do almost anything to save him from a conviction by the honor court.†
Chpt 4.41
- Tradd continued, and his voice gained power and conviction as he turned back to face the members of the committee.†
Chpt 4.41
- They won't kick me out," Pig said, but his words sounded more like prayer than conviction.†
Chpt 4.41
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