Conviction

Conviction

In law, a conviction is the verdict that results when a court of law finds a defendant guilty of a crime.

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Famous quotes containing the word conviction:

    “I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “... the truth is hidden from us. Even if a mere piece of luck brings us straight to it, we shall have no grounded conviction of our success; there are so many similar objects, all claiming to be the real thing.”
    —Lucian (c. 120–c. 180)

    “Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard.”
    —Robertson Davies (b. 1913)