conviction
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4.5
- noun
- /kənˈvɪkʃən/
:
convicción
- Her strong conviction about equal rights motivates her activism.
- religious convictions
- moral convictions
- express conviction
And you held true to your convictions and and here we are.
- And you held true to your convictions and and here we are.
- And it required a lot of conviction and faith and patience and pain.
- And I love his his quote, which is conviction beats consensus.
- Just a person of deep conviction and integrity.
- See, my grandmother said that conviction and comfort don't live in the same block.
- So being passionate, being optimistic, being excited, having conviction, that's incredible.
- No, I, I do it from a political conviction and a political commitment.
- We have to be have conviction in our beliefs.
- Has Kathy's insanely high conviction in Tesla shifted?
- Do you have conviction, right, that this is going to work?
- I I, I don't have as much high conviction on these these airline stocks.
Examples
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"We'll just have to wait, girls," she said with as much conviction as she could muster.
Fiction book (1990) -
I suppose I lack conviction.
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I have deep conviction of how I see things.
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You have been under the deep conviction that you are what you look like.
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No, I, I do it from a political conviction and a political commitment.
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I made my vote with conviction.
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Just a person of deep conviction and integrity.
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Despite this difference, both writers were united in their conviction about the importance of criticism as a profession.
Academic text (1999) -
We believe, with everlasting conviction, that you are our creator, our benefactor, our lord and master.
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Men and women with strong nationalist convictions, determined to advocate for equality and freedom for the Irish people.
Synonyms
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1.0
A person's view about something
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1.1
A feeling that something is true even without proof
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4.0
An opinion people have that is not based on proof
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3.4
A person's belief, often about politics or religion
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3.9
An idea someone holds about what is right or true that affects how they act
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3.6
A sure feeling that something is true
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8.3
Complete confidence that something is true without enough proof
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6.0
A belief accepted without question by a group
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
- Formal
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7.9
An official court decision that says someone is guilty and gives their punishment
How Certain
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Conviction comes from a Latin word meaning 'to conquer' or 'to win', and you can see the same root in convince and victory. So a conviction is an idea that has 'won' over someone and feels very strong.