self-conviction

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It's hard to imagine their opponents, Australia, suffering from the same chronic lack of self-conviction.

From BBC • Jun. 14, 2025

The by-standers said, “God forbid!” and when the horrified exclamation betrayed their consciousness of the position, Jesus was content, without a word, to mark their self-conviction by His searching gaze.

From The Gospel According to St. Mark by Chadwick, G. A.

It may often be a necessary step in self-conviction.

From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by Tyler, John Mason

But now, with self-conviction, Jane   Her idleness confessed, And ere her aunt could come again,   Her doll was neatly dressed.

From Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 by Cole, E. W. (Edward William)

In the consideration of such a book the motive power, the plot, is hardly of moment—it is the workmanship, and what one might term the self-conviction of the novelist, that counts.

From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 by Various