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So it was that Harold's accident and its aftermath got in everywhere, into the solidest relationships, the firmest beliefs, the strongest loyalties, the most deeply held convictions you had about the people you had known most of your life.†
p. 232.9 *
The conviction that they truly thought she was damned dragged at her more and more as time went on.†
p. 51.6
It was all so easy to imagine: Daddy stalking into Hooker, Williams, Crockett in his boots and overalls and making a fuss, then Caroline being pierced with fear when she found out; Rose silently waiting for Caroline to perform a duty that everyone but she had forgotten about; Caroline incubating her wish that we not sign the transfer papers until it turned into a conviction.†
p. 99.9
But now I saw with fresh conviction that it was us, all of us, who were failing, and the hallmark of our failure was the way we ate with our heads down, hungrily, quickly, because there was nothing else to do at the table.†
p. 102.1
I'd thought Rose's negative feelings would carry more conviction than that.†
p. 152.1
Of course the conviction that he had some knowledge of my time with Jess Clark materialized, whole and fully armed, in my new awareness.†
p. 185.7
That's how he keeps betraying us, why he roars at us with such conviction.†
p. 216.5
I said, "Rose—" When her face swiveled toward me, it was lit up with conviction.†
p. 237.3
It was a state of mind in which I "knew" many things, in which "conviction" was not an abstract, rather dry term referring to moral values or conscious beliefs, but a feeling of being drenched with insight, swollen with it like a wet sponge.†
p. 305.4
Every time I could not actually see one or the other of them, I had a visceral conviction that they were together.†
p. 307.4
I felt a semisubmerged conviction that I had entered upon the changeless eternal.†
p. 334.3
That, I had come to realize, was the premier sign of masculinity and maturity, a settled conviction, born of experience, that these rituals would and should be catered to.†
p. 338.9
She said this last with flat conviction.†
p. 352.8

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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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