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Definition of Convictions
1. conviction [n] - See also: conviction
Lexicographical Neighbors of Convictions
Literary usage of Convictions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1862)
"The following are the number of capital convictions and executions during these
years:—1831,10G convictions, 26 executions; ..."
2. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1860)
"By its rise : it is caused by saving convictions for sin. ... Now the ignorant
know not that such convictions as tend to put them in fear are for their good ..."
3. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1886)
"In the former class of cases, 34611 convictions were obtained, and 52 per cent .
of the ... In the latter class of cases, 86653 convictions were obtained, ..."
4. Orthodoxy: Its Truths and Errors by James Freeman Clarke (1918)
"Orthodoxy as convictions underlying Opinions. ... Are there any such great
convictions underlying and informing all the creeds? I think there are. ..."
5. The Parliamentary Debates by Thomas Curson Hansard, Great Britain Parliament (1828)
"Those returns related to crimes generally ; and some of the convictions went as
... The account, however, of the number of convictions under the Game- laws ..."
6. Annual Report by Correctional Association of New York (1864)
"convictions AND RE-convictions. a. First Conviction. 200 72 50 4 16 4 3 f.
Eighth Conviction. Men 1 Total, 274 men, and 76 women. 14. TERMS OF SENTENCE. a. ..."
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