Webster's English Dictionary

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conviction

Cross references:
  1. certainty              2. opinion               
 
con.vic.tion \k*n-'vik-sh*n\ n 1: the act or process of convicting of a 
   crime esp. in a court of law  2a: the act of convincing a person of error 
   or of compelling the admission  of a truth 2b: the state of being convinced 
   of error or compelled to admit the truth  3a: a strong persuasion or belief 
    3b: the state of being convinced