Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"those ideas which one believes to be true," 1883, plural of conviction.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of conviction English)
Wikipedia
Convictions is an episode from the third season of the science-fiction television series Babylon 5.
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Usage examples of "convictions".
And in every heart reigned the falsest of despairing convictions, that this was the only reality, and that was but a dream.
Though the opinion was exceptionally long, its bottom line was simple: the convictions would stand.
The first few were minor, and she voted her Agnew-style convictions in each case.
Among them they boast 874 felony arrests, 300 felony convictions, 1,682 misdemeanor arrests and 1,023 misdemeanor convictions, only 85 have ever served time in prisons or reform schools.
Angel convictions on 1,023 misdemeanor counts and 151 felonies -- primarily vehicle theft, burglary and assault.
The first taste of applause had given extraordinary impulse to his convictions, and the personal ambition with which they were interwoven.
It needed but a glance over this assembly to understand how very theoretical were the convictions that had brought its members together.
What I purpose doing is so inevitably the result of my strongest convictions that nothing could change me.
Possessed by the universal conceit of the reasonableness of our feelings and convictions, neither one of us noticed that this was simply a struggle between two natures whereof one was trying to subject the other.