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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
conviction
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a passionate belief/conviction
▪ We had a passionate belief in what we were doing.
compromise your beliefs/convictions/ideals
▪ Anti-war activists were put in prison for refusing to compromise their beliefs.
firm conviction/commitment/belief etc
▪ Our client hasn’t reached a firm decision on the matter yet.
quashed...conviction
▪ The High Court later quashed his conviction for murder.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
criminal
▪ Some of the doormen had criminal convictions and a history of violence.
▪ Thirty-five criminal convictions and 18 civil judgments have been obtained since March 1995, and many more are expected.
▪ The result: 11 criminal convictions.
▪ For that $ 110 million, the taxpayers have gotten little in return in terms of lasting criminal convictions.
▪ Last year, 114 cases with 236 victims and more than $ 18 million in estimated rip-offs led to 11 criminal convictions.
▪ His criminal record includes convictions for assault and dangerous driving.
▪ Another was Lloyd Carlo Douglas, whom prosecutors allowed to falsely testify that he had no criminal convictions.
deep
▪ That shows an inner strength which must be the result of his deep religious conviction.
▪ In this, Vargas Llosa defends his most deep and abiding conviction: that literature can change the world.
▪ Friends and associates describe Starr, the son of a Baptist minister, as a man of deep religious convictions.
▪ They obscure our deeper conviction that what is in the blood will out, that shared blood means shared susceptibilities.
early
▪ By the early 1820s conviction grew amongst reformers that it was not.
▪ Attorney Kathleen O'Connor repeatedly objected, citing Harris's earlier convictions.
firm
▪ It is the firm conviction of your Board that you should not become shareholders in a company with such an unsound strategy.
▪ Like fighters, those who flee tend to hold firm convictions about how progress and growth ought to be achieved.
▪ Believe he could not, and at the same time he had no firm conviction that all was untrue.
▪ Fighting Organizational Behavior Patterns Strong, healthy individuals have firm convictions and beliefs.
▪ The right hon. Lady said no, no, no out of firm conviction.
personal
▪ At these times the strength of personal relationships and conviction will be tested.
▪ But in the last resort what really moves us is our personal convictions.
▪ Without the anchor of personal conviction they are at the mercy of every ebb and flow of opinion.
▪ There is no iron in the new faith because it lacks personal conviction.
▪ Only when the cause of the doubt has been understood and dealt with can faith be re-engaged and personal conviction encouraged.
▪ This is the obedience of faith to which personal conviction leads.
▪ There are many reasons why people have a diminished sense of personal conviction.
political
▪ At no time could his work for the press be dissociated from his political convictions.
▪ One can only conclude that the commitment on tax is the result of political conviction and the insistence of Bush's sponsors.
▪ In complete contrast to Ybreska, Kirov was a man of deep political and ideological convictions.
▪ There was no escape, either, from the consequences of my parents' passionate political convictions.
▪ It did not suggest a wound of honour or an injury sustained for political conviction.
▪ And today he revealed that his wife is now prepared to die for her political convictions.
▪ The mainsprings of his activity were his religious and political convictions.
▪ I respect Izzo's political convictions and those of his family, which aren't the same as mine.
previous
▪ Cook, who has previous convictions for robbery, pleaded guilty to attempted rape and to unlawful wounding.
▪ In January 1994, he agreed to give free concerts as compensation for a previous conviction on drunken driving charges.
▪ The shop suffered a substantial loss of trading. Previous convictions: none.
▪ John Hargreaves, prosecuting, said that Bulmer had a long list of previous convictions.
▪ The magistrates were told that he had three previous convictions for alcohol-related offences.
▪ He was over the drink-drive limit and had a previous conviction for careless driving.
▪ Tomkinson had a previous conviction for exposing himself to a woman in 1985 and was given probation in 1990 for assault.
prior
▪ Scepticism is dogmatic when assent is withheld on the basis of prior conviction without considering the evidence.
▪ Johnson had two prior convictions for residential burglaries and a history of petty crimes.
▪ Diaz has four prior felony convictions, including two attempted robberies, an attempted assault and a drug case.
religious
▪ They all wear headscarves-whether out of fear or religious conviction I do not know-whereas I don't.
▪ Furthermore, preparation of students to work as church musicians without regard to their religious convictions can lead to confusion or insincerity.
▪ Davis' religious conviction actually gives him a better understanding of Hall, Hall says.
▪ That shows an inner strength which must be the result of his deep religious conviction.
▪ The nuns do not, as a matter of religious conviction, use such modern conveniences, but city bureaucrats were implacable.
▪ Its aim would be to produce people with versatile musicianship and proven teaching ability, based upon religious conviction.
▪ Friends and associates describe Starr, the son of a Baptist minister, as a man of deep religious convictions.
strong
▪ He had found that since the chair discouraged emphasis, it also discouraged strong convictions.
▪ However, I have an equally strong conviction that a balanced-budget amendment is a threat to Social Security and our economic health.
▪ It is my strong conviction that an efficient economy and a fair society go together.
▪ Fund managers have few strong convictions about the stock or bond markets for 1996.
▪ Male speaker Anybody with strong convictions that what he is doing is right is bound to stir up controversy.
▪ To do that, it takes a person of strong conviction and real guts.
▪ Dad, mainly through his strong religious convictions, has forgiven them.
wrongful
▪ So the trial led to the wrongful conviction of Al-Megrahi and the final betrayal of the bereaved families.
■ NOUN
felony
▪ Laws in 13 states bar 510, 000 black men from voting because of felony convictions.
▪ His first of five felony convictions came at age 19, when he pleaded guilty to drug possession.
▪ There currently are 13 aggravating circumstances that can be considered in felony convictions and 10 in death-penalty cases.
▪ Failure by the parole system to learn of felony convictions and to revoke paroles.
▪ Diaz has four prior felony convictions, including two attempted robberies, an attempted assault and a drug case.
murder
▪ The former president's brother, Raul, is in prison on a murder conviction and corruption charges.
▪ A judge this week is to rule on a defense request to reduce or overturn her second-degree murder conviction.
rate
▪ In 1789-90 the conviction rate in London was 79 percent and in the provinces 85 percent.
▪ And LaWall assures us the conviction rate will remain high.
▪ These trials involved 493 defendants of which 345 were convicted-a 70 per cent conviction rate.
▪ Why is there such a gap between conviction rates and women's complaints?
▪ Thereafter the conviction rate steadily increased, reaching twenty-five percent or more early in the twentieth century.
▪ So why has it not led to a rise in conviction rates?
▪ The conviction rate for these latter offences rose from around five percent in the 1860s to fifteen percent in the twentieth century.
▪ One of these is to improve prosecution and conviction rates.
■ VERB
appeal
▪ Widdowson appealed against conviction on the technicality that obtaining hire-purchase did not amount to obtaining services.
▪ He appealed the conviction, but lost in June 1992.
▪ Both men stated their intention to appeal against their convictions.
▪ Under the new rules, state prisoners would have only one chance to appeal their convictions at the federal level.
▪ When the three appealed against their convictions they were successful.
▪ He is free on bail while appealing the conviction.
▪ Lozano was allowed to remain free on bail while appealing against his conviction.
▪ He appealed against conviction, submitting that the trial judge's decision was wrong in law.
based
▪ Its aim would be to produce people with versatile musicianship and proven teaching ability, based upon religious conviction.
▪ His shifting standpoints, however, were invariably based on genuine conviction.
carry
▪ Nor is there textual evidence which carries any conviction.
▪ I tried to argue, Holmes, but somehow my words carried insufficient conviction.
▪ Internationalists had their explanations for that, of course, but these failed to carry conviction in the face of the facts.
▪ Probably she had found a sufficient stock of unused paper in the attic - yellowed enough with age to carry conviction.
▪ It had to carry conviction with a better educated, more discriminating public.
▪ Firmly distanced from the levers of power, the liberal parties were unable to carry conviction among their potential constituents.
▪ The refusal also makes the Government incapable of carrying conviction in its overall economic policy.
▪ The reader may not be persuaded by some of the cases, but the whole mass of them carries conviction.
express
▪ He often expressed his conviction that a closed society is an anachronism in a global society.
follow
▪ I don't wish to upset her, but sometimes it is only right to follow one's own convictions.
▪ Courtney was jailed for seven years on November 30 following his conviction for two rapes and two indecent assaults.
hold
▪ Such works demean religious believers and hold up their convictions to contempt.
▪ Like fighters, those who flee tend to hold firm convictions about how progress and growth ought to be achieved.
▪ The text of the Botanical Cabinet, combining scientific information with pious observations, reflected Loddiges's deeply held religious convictions.
▪ It was held that the conviction should be quashed.
lack
▪ But away from the controlling mythology of the Western, his blood-dimmed vision lacked the same conviction.
▪ The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
▪ But the letter, a social obligation too promptly performed, had lacked conviction.
▪ One major factor, of course, was that the possible alternatives seemed enfeebled and lacking in conviction.
▪ The trouble with this remarkable change of character is that Swayze simply lacks conviction.
▪ There is no iron in the new faith because it lacks personal conviction.
▪ Now, fortunately, the worst lack all conviction too.
▪ But it must be admitted that the interpretation of the earlier building as a temple lacks conviction.
lead
▪ So the trial led to the wrongful conviction of Al-Megrahi and the final betrayal of the bereaved families.
▪ Last year, 114 cases with 236 victims and more than $ 18 million in estimated rip-offs led to 11 criminal convictions.
▪ Now store owner Paul Harper has offered a £500 reward for information leading to a conviction.
▪ In 1994, a major trial involving bribes paid by subsidiaries of Ferruzzi Finanziaria SpA in 1990 led to numerous convictions.
▪ The commission accepts that the basic offence might not lead to many convictions.
▪ The testimony of one witness led to his conviction.
▪ Now Fairworld is offering a reward for information which leads to the conviction of the thieves.
▪ Rewards totalling £20,000 have been offered for information leading to the conviction of those responsible.
obtain
▪ If both remain silent, or each accuses the other, it is impossible in law to obtain a conviction against either.
overturn
▪ The appeal court, overturning this conviction, found him guilty only on what was described as the lesser charge of genocide.
▪ An appeals court overturned the convictions in 1979.
▪ The Northern Ireland Court of Appeal overturned his conviction for wounding one of the teenagers, who later died.
▪ Growing pressure for democratic change On Oct. 3 the Appeal Court overturned the conviction and sentencing of two prominent political prisoners.
▪ Reza Eslaminia, 35, is taking his last shot at overturning his 1988 conviction.
▪ A judge this week is to rule on a defense request to reduce or overturn her second-degree murder conviction.
quash
▪ The Court of Appeal quashed the conviction, declaring that the subjective definition was necessary.
▪ The Court of Appeal quashed the conviction because the judge had directed the jury in Caldwell terms.
▪ Today at Aylesbury Crown Court they asked a judge to quash those convictions.
▪ The Court of Appeal quashed his conviction.
▪ But the Court of Appeal quashed his conviction and accepted that the woman probably faked her injuries and fabricated the allegations.
▪ When the defendant appealed, the Court of Appeal upheld that submission and quashed his convictions.
▪ But in July the Appeal Court quashed the conviction and ordered a second trial.
▪ The Court therefore excluded the confession wrongly obtained by the police and went on to quash Samuel's conviction for armed robbery.
result
▪ A criminal case that resulted in four convictions at London's Southwark Crown Court last month illustrates why this reputation survives.
▪ The prosecutions that did not end until this year resulted in 14 convictions and guilty pleas.
▪ Judges granted around a third, resulting in 582 convictions.
▪ Of 4, 767 domestic violence cases, only 11 percent resulted in conviction.
▪ Jonathan Aitken escaped the total destruction of his career, which might well have resulted from a conviction.
▪ Thirty-one cases were tried, many with more than one defendant, resulting in thirty-one convictions and seventeen acquittals.
▪ Twenty-one cases were tried, resulting in the conviction of twenty-eight defendants and fourteen acquittals.
secure
▪ If the other evidence was good enough they could secure a conviction on that alone.
▪ But could they ever secure a conviction on that basis against an heir to the throne?
▪ But to secure a conviction they must show prove the culprits are professional dealers.
▪ But they need strong evidence to secure a conviction.
▪ The Crown Prosecution Service decided there was insufficient evidence to secure a conviction.
▪ The testimony of the former Wedtech president, Anthony Guariglia, was instrumental in securing Wallach's conviction.
share
▪ Wilsonians and Jacksonians share the conviction that, if we have enough will, we can remake the world.
▪ Some criminals seem to share that conviction.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
have the courage of your (own) convictions
▪ Larry displayed the courage of his convictions by saying no to his supervisor.
wrongful arrest/conviction/imprisonment/dismissal etc
▪ All claims by the employee, whether they be for unfair dismissal, wrongful dismissal or redundancy are claims against the vendor.
▪ Every wrongful imprisonment could lead to a civil lawsuit against the city.
▪ He issued a writ claiming damages for wrongful dismissal.
▪ Now he is being tried for kidnapping, wrongful imprisonment and bodily injury.
▪ One point to clear up immediately is the widespread confusion between wrongful dismissal and unfair dismissal.
▪ So the trial led to the wrongful conviction of Al-Megrahi and the final betrayal of the bereaved families.
▪ The city is facing many claims for wrongful arrest, totalling millions of dollars.
▪ What do you stand to gain in a wrongful dismissal case?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Americans held the conviction that anyone could become rich if they worked hard.
▪ Mrs. Warren and her husband appealed the conviction.
▪ The trial and conviction of Jimmy Malone took over three months.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He only had one tiny conviction for shoplifting so far, and felt sure that wouldn't be held against him.
▪ He sells his company and he sells himself marketing his own deeply held convictions.
▪ It does not follow that increases in crime accompanied by increased numbers of convictions necessarily entails more people being incarcerated.
▪ The fact that they do not believe with any great conviction the theories underlying the shocks, makes their task even harder.
▪ Then, with more conviction, she pronounced my name.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conviction

Conviction \Con*vic"tion\ (k[o^]n*v[i^]k"sh[u^]n), n. [L. convictio proof: cf. F. conviction conviction (in sense 3 & 4). See Convict, Convince.]

  1. The act of convicting; the act of proving, finding, or adjudging, guilty of an offense.

    The greater certainty of conviction and the greater certainty of punishment.
    --Hallam.

  2. (Law) A judgment of condemnation entered by a court having jurisdiction; the act or process of finding guilty, or the state of being found guilty of any crime by a legal tribunal.

    Conviction may accrue two ways.
    --Blackstone.

  3. The act of convincing of error, or of compelling the admission of a truth; confutation.

    For all his tedious talk is but vain boast, Or subtle shifts conviction to evade.
    --Milton.

  4. The state of being convinced or convicted; strong persuasion or belief; especially, the state of being convicted of sin, or by one's conscience.

    To call good evil, and evil good, against the conviction of their own consciences.
    --Swift.

    And did you presently fall under the power of this conviction?
    --Bunyan.

    Syn: Conviction; persuasion.

    Usage: Conviction respects soley matters of belief or faith; persuasion respects matters of belief or practice. Conviction respects our most important duties; persuasion is frequently applied to matters of indifference.
    --Crabb. -- Conviction is the result of the [operation of the] understanding; persuasion, of the will. Conviction is a necessity of the mind, persuasion an acquiescence of the inclination.
    --C. J. Smith. -- Persuasion often induces men to act in opposition to their conviction of duty.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
conviction

mid-15c., "the proving of guilt," from Late Latin convictionem (nominative convictio) "proof, refutation," noun of action from past participle stem of convincere (see convince). Meaning "mental state of being convinced" is from 1690s; that of "firm belief, a belief held as proven" is from 1841.

Wiktionary
conviction

n. 1 (context countable English) A firmly held belief. 2 (context countable English) A judgement of guilt in a court of law.

WordNet
conviction

  1. n. an unshakable belief in something without need for proof or evidence [syn: strong belief, article of faith]

  2. (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed; "the conviction came as no surprise" [syn: judgment of conviction, condemnation, sentence] [ant: acquittal]

Related phrases:
Wikipedia
Conviction

In law, a conviction is the verdict that results when a court of law finds a defendant guilty of a crime. The opposite of a conviction is an acquittal (i.e. "not guilty"). In Scotland and in the Netherlands, there can also be a verdict of " not proven", which counts as an acquittal. There are also cases where the court orders that a defendant not be convicted, despite being found guilty; in England, Wales and Canada the mechanism for this is a discharge.

For a host of reasons, the criminal justice system is not perfect, and sometimes guilty defendants are acquitted, while innocent people are convicted. Appeal mechanisms mitigate this problem to some extent. An error which results in the conviction of an innocent person is known as a miscarriage of justice.

After a defendant is convicted, the court determines the appropriate sentence as a punishment. Furthermore, the conviction may lead to results beyond the terms of the sentence itself. Such ramifications are known as the collateral consequences of criminal charges.

A minor conviction is a warning conviction, and it does not affect the defendant but does serve as a warning.

A history of convictions are called antecedents, known colloquially as "previous" in the United Kingdom, and "priors" in the United States and Australia. The history of convictions also shows that a minor law conviction can be prosecuted as any individuals punishment.

Conviction (disambiguation)

Conviction is a finding that a defendant is guilty of committing a crime.

Conviction may also refer to:

Conviction (play)

Conviction is a play by American playwright and feminist activist Eve Ensler. The play was written by Ensler in 1981, and performed at the 1999 Berkshire Theater Festival in Stockbridge, Mass. The story involves two sisters, one of whom has been in prison.

Conviction (novel)

Conviction is a novel published in 2004 by Richard North Patterson. The novel centers on the debate surrounding capital punishment.

Conviction (Aiden album)

Conviction is the third studio album by American rock band Aiden.

Conviction (2010 film)

Conviction is a 2010 legal drama film directed by Tony Goldwyn, written by Pamela Gray, and starring Hilary Swank and Sam Rockwell. The film premiered on September 11, 2010, at the Toronto International Film Festival and was released in the US on October 15, 2010.

Conviction (The Crimson Armada album)

Conviction is the second and final studio album by American heavy metal band The Crimson Armada. The album was released on June 21, 2011, through Artery Recordings. It's the only of their releases to include clean vocals. It's the only album to feature vocalist/guitarist Brandon McMaster

Conviction (Star Wars novel)

Conviction is a Star Wars novel written by Aaron Allston and published on May 24, 2011.

Conviction (Signal Aout 42 album)

Conviction is the third album by the electronic body music group Signal Aout 42. After this album, the band temporarily split up.

Conviction (2002 film)

Conviction is a made-for-television biopic about Carl Upchurch, a hardcore felon who managed to educate himself and developed a spiritual awakening during one of his numerous stints inside prison. He began to spread his message to other inmates, and soon he was asked to help mediate problems between some of the most feared street gangs in the country. Directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan, Conviction stars Omar Epps as Upchurch and features supporting turns from Dana Delany and Charles S. Dutton. The film first aired in 2002.

Conviction (2006 TV series)

Conviction is an American television drama on NBC that debuted as a mid-season replacement on Friday, March 3, 2006. The cast includes Stephanie March reprising her Law & Order: Special Victims Unit role as Alexandra Cabot. In the series, Cabot returns to New York City and becomes a Bureau Chief ADA supervising a group of young but talented assistant district attorneys after a stint in the Witness Protection Program. Other cast members include Eric Balfour, Anson Mount, Jordan Bridges, Julianne Nicholson, Milena Govich, and J. August Richards.

Prior to the show's debut, creator Dick Wolf remarked, "Conviction will be a 'charactercedural', we will be dealing extensively with characters' back stories and personal lives. I am delighted with the extraordinary cast we have assembled, which will give the show depth and emotional intensity."

Conviction's premiere came precisely one year after the premiere of the short-lived Law & Order: Trial by Jury, which was also created by Dick Wolf and also aired on NBC (in filming, Conviction used many of the Trial by Jury sets). On February 21, 2006, the pilot episode of Conviction was made available for free download through iTunes music store; the free download was available until March 3, the date of the NBC premiere. The pilot and all other aired episodes are now available for purchase.

NBC announced the series would not be renewed for a second season on May 14, 2006, having been routinely beaten in the ratings by CBS's math police procedural Numb3rs.

The theme song to Conviction is "Destiny", by the English electronic music group Syntax. It can be found on their 2004 album Meccano Mind.

Conviction has aired on Five US and Hallmark Channel in the United Kingdom.

Re-runs can currently be seen on Universal HD and Netflix in the United States.

In March 2008, the show debuted in Australia, on Network Ten's Ten HD channel.

Conviction (Angel)

"Conviction" is the first episode of season 5 in the television show Angel, originally broadcast on the WB network. In this episode, Wolfram & Hart C.E.O. Angel and the rest of the group cope with their new, morally ambiguous lifestyle. Their client - an unsavory, violent gangster - threatens to unleash a virus if they fail to keep him out of jail. Biological warfare is averted when Gunn uses the knowledge of the law that Wolfram & Hart mystically bestowed upon him to prevent the gangster from being incarcerated.

Conviction (2004 TV series)

Conviction is a British television crime drama that premiered on BBC Three on 7 November 2004. The six-part series stars William Ash, David Warner, Ian Puleston-Davies, Reece Dinsdale, Nicholas Gleaves, Laura Fraser, Jason Watkins and Zoe Henry.

The series was created and was written by Bill Gallagher (previously known for Clocking Off and Out of the Blue), produced by Red Production Company, and directed by Marc Munden (Vanity Fair, Canterbury Tales: The Knight's Tale). The producer was Ann Harrison-Baxter (The Second Coming, The Cops), with Nicola Shindler and Gareth Neame as executive producers for Red Production Company and the BBC respectively.

The storyline was later used as the basis for the movie Blood, starring Paul Bettany, Mark Strong and Brian Cox.

Conviction (UT album)

Conviction is the debut album of no wave band Ut, released in 1986 by Out Records.

Conviction (2016 TV series)

Conviction is an upcoming American legal drama television series on ABC. Its premiere is scheduled for Monday, October 3, 2016, at 10pm/9c. The series, starring Hayley Atwell, was picked up from pilot on May 12, 2016. A full trailer was released on May 17, 2016.

Usage examples of "conviction".

It was then that there dawned upon him the possibility of the success of a different course which would still leave him in possession of the jewels, while at the same time satisfying the greed of the Abyssinian with the conviction that he had obtained all that Werper had to offer.

Suppose that any cool and cynical art-critic, any art-critic fully impressed with the conviction that artists were greatest when they were most purely artistic, suppose that a man who professed ably a humane aestheticism, as did Mr.

Separatists and Albertan ultra-rightists united only in their fanatical conviction that the U.

It was his firm conviction that the flight to Amritsar, which the Colonel had advised in case of a defeat, was, under the present circumstances, quite impracticable.

The complete development of church apologetics, as well as the conviction that Christianity is identical with correct and absolute knowledge.

Johns, by nature as well as by education, was disposed to look distrustfully upon any sudden conviction of duty which had its spring in any extraordinary exaltation of feeling, rather than in that full intellectual seizure of the Divine Word, which it seemed to him could come only after a determined wrestling with those dogmas that to his mind were the aptest and compactest expression of the truth toward which we must agonize.

Kelric wanted to believe his brother was in the custody of the Allied Worlds, but his hope fought with his conviction that the Aristos would never trade their Ruby psion.

Here is a theatre for great dramas, wanting only the tragedian, The outlawed Sheikh of the Bishareen knew this full well, but, unlike others who know it, he had acted upon his convictions and revealed to wondering Egypt what Bedouin craft and a band of intrepid horsemen can do, aided by a belt of sand, and cloaked by night.

I was relieved to find our journey ending, as I felt an increasing distrust of Eleanor, and a growing conviction that if she could injure me with Juan Cordova, she would.

Defense Secretary was a quiet but inpressive man, exuding a sort of iron conviction Kingsley had seldom seen, for a pointed counterexample, in the English cabinet.

Court upset a conviction for perjury in the district courts of one who had denied under oath before a House Committee any affiliation with Communism.

General Court voted in October that the conviction and attainders of George Burroughs, John Proctor, George Jacobs, John Willard, Giles Corey, Martha Corey, Rebecca Nurse, Sarah Good, Elizabeth How, Mary Easty, Sarah Wildes, Abigail Hobbs, Samuel Wardwell, Mary Parker, Martha Carrier, Abigail Faulkner, Anne Foster, Rebecca Eames, Mary Post, Mary Lacey, Mary Bradbury, and Dorcas Hoar be reversed.

This fault is very incident to the scholarly style, which often sacrifices emphasis and conviction to a futile air of encyclopaedic grandeur.

The following placard was posted throughout the goldfields:- 500 POUNDS REWARD for the discovery, apprehension and conviction of the murderer of James Scobie, found dead near the late Eureka Hotel, etc.

And in every heart reigned the falsest of despairing convictions, that this was the only reality, and that was but a dream.