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conviction Definition

con·vic·tion (kən vik′s̸hən)

noun

  1. a convicting or being convicted
  2. Rare the act of convincing
  3. the state or appearance of being convinced, as of the truth of a belief to speak with conviction
  4. a strong belief

Etymology: ME < LL(Ec) convictio, proof, demonstration

conviction Synonyms

conviction

n.

  1. Belief

    persuasion, confidence, view; see belief 1, certainty 1, faith 1, 2, opinion 1.

  2. The state of finding guilty

    unfavorable verdict, guilty verdict, determining guilt, condemnation, condemning; see also blame 1, punishment, sentence 1. See syn. study at certainty, opinion.

conviction Law Definition

n

  1. The act or process by which a judge or jury finds someone guilty of an offense. See also judgment.
  2. A firm belief or opinion.
conviction Usage Examples

Preposition: on

  • indictment: In Scotland, the maximum fine on summary conviction is £ 40,000, or an unlimited fine on conviction on indictment.

Adjective modifier

  • wrongful: Thus, the present system remains intact and there is unlikely to be a flood of claims for wrongful conviction or unlawful detention.
  • unspent: It should also be noted that having a criminal record or unspent convictions is not an automatic barrier to becoming a custody visitor.
  • criminal: I have a criminal conviction - will I still be able to adopt or foster?
  • previous: Gibbons, who the court heard had previous convictions for violence, admitted unlawful wounding on the first day of his trial last month.
  • speeding: Up to 2005, there have been 4.2 million speeding convictions in total, of which 2.2 million occurred in 2005.
  • religious: The values we address today do not only resonate with people with deeply held religious conviction.

Converse of object

  • quash: In addition, there are around 3,500 quashed criminal convictions a year at the Crown Court for convictions obtained at the magistrates ' courts.
  • disclose: Any failure to disclose convictions will also need to be taken into account.
  • overturn: JUL The Appeal Court overturns 18 convictions from the first supergrass trial.
  • uphold: Appeal Court judges at a second appeal in 1996 contradicted those in the first appeal and upheld the conviction.
  • declare: The form only asked me to declare any unspent convictions and mentioned nothing about cautions.

Noun used with modifier

  • summary: The maximum penalty on summary conviction is currently £ 20,000.
  • manslaughter: The maximum penalty for a corporate manslaughter conviction will be an unlimited fine.

Preposition: of

  • sin: An enquirer once said to a minister, " The next step for me is to get a deeper conviction of sin.

Preposition: for

  • manslaughter: Without it, there can only be a conviction for manslaughter.
  • offense: The RSPCA obtained 271 convictions for badger offenses from 1986 to 1997.
  • dishonesty: We believe that there is a need to consider the Applicant's sexual offenses alongside his convictions for dishonesty.
  • murder: The proof of intent ( the mens rea or guilty mind ) is crucial to secure a conviction for murder.
  • burglary: To Catch a Thief 7 x 30 BBC1 Richard Taylor and Michael Fraser have over 40 convictions for burglary & theft between them.
conviction Quotes

The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs toofar from the dance; that poetry beginsto atrophy when it getstoo far from music . . .

—Pound, Ezra Loomis

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. SeeAchebe 2:18.

—Yeats,W(illiam) B(utler)

The deepest thing I know is that I am living and dying at once, and my conviction is to report that dialogue.

—Kunitz, StanleyJasspon

   I cannot give any scientist of anyage better advice than this: the intensityof a conviction that a hypothesisistrue has no bearing over whether it is true or not.

—Medawar, Sir Peter Brian

He may be more potent than any other man. The damnable iteration dayafter day of earnest conviction wears like the dropping of the water upon the stone.

—Stead,WilliamThomas

Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room.

—Broun, (Matthew) Heywood Campbell

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes, than a public library.

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson

Never lay yourselfopentowhat iscalled conviction: you might as well open your waist-coat to receive a knock- down blow.

—Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh