conviction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From late Middle English conviction, from Anglo-Norman conviction, from Latin convictiō, from convictus, the past participle of convincō (“to convict”). Equivalent to convict + -ion.
Base: convict
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: convictions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A firmly held belief.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: "...I imagined...that the husband of the lady might very easily be in Russia while his wife's health might necessitate her wintering in Egypt..." "But my mother thinks not. My mother thinks there is not a husband at all,—that there never was a husband. In fact my mother has very strong convictions on the subject..."
It is of the nature of the intellectual's job that he must use his own knowledge and convictions in performing his daily task.
gloss: A judgement of guilt in a court of law.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: He said Robins had not been in trouble with the law before and had no previous convictions. Jail would have an adverse effect on her and her three children as she was the main carer.
gloss: The state of being wholly convinced.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Analogies are used in aid of Conviction: Metaphors, as means of Illustration.
The visitors were being pinned back by the end of the first half. Yet Gordon Strachan's side played with great conviction and always had a chance of springing a surprise when their opponents were so susceptible at the back.
gloss: The state of being found or proved guilty.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: From G. R. Ratts , Game Warden , fines collected on conviction of violation of State game law .
I do not know of any Federal statute which carries with it forfeiture of citizenship or civil rights except this one that we are discussing, which is conviction of desertion committed in time of war and conviction of treason.
Thus, the argument continues, federal prosecutors would be motivated to seek Major Crimes Act indictments in marginal cases because they could be relatively certain of getting some conviction.
Where evidence in prosecution for larceny of two doors of the value of more than $50.00 sustained verdict that defendant had stolen the doors but was insufficient to establish that the doors were worth $50.00 or more, conviction of grand larceny would be reduced, on appeal to conviction of petit larceny.
The rush to convict suspects on weak evidence may well lead not only to conviction of the innocent, but also to the release of the guilty from liability for the crime, as occurred in the famous Alfred Dreyfus case, which I shall discuss later.
Synonyms: attaintment
condemnation
conviction
judgement
proscription
Antonyms: acquittal
Related words: convict
guilt
Derived words: carry conviction
certificate of no criminal conviction
convictional
coonviction
courage of one's convictions
misconviction
nonconviction
pièce de conviction
postconviction
preconviction
reconviction
self-conviction
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: убеденост
roman: ubedenost
lang: Bulgarian
word: увереност
roman: uverenost
lang: Esperanto
word: konvinkiĝo
lang: Finnish
word: vakuuttuneisuus
lang: Middle English
word: stedefastnesse
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: overbevisning
lang: Sicilian
word: cumminziuni
lang: Spanish
word: convencimiento
lang: Ukrainian
word: перекона́ння
roman: perekonánnja