self-conviction
Example Sentences
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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 superstition of these poor fellows, and the circumstantial accounts which they give, with the utmost earnestness and self-conviction, would horrify any man not accustomed to their ways.
From The Captain of the Polestar by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
"Recollect you are not on parade now, or exactly before the sternest Court of Inquiry in the world, and should therefore, entertain no dread of punishment on your self-conviction."
From Hardscrabble; or, the fall of Chicago. a tale of Indian warfare by Richardson, John
If George Eastman had a self-conviction that he and his cousin had contributed to this downfall, he tried to make it up to Irene in brotherly kindness and generous expenditure where money was concerned.
From Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart by Douglas, Amanda Minnie
He asserted it with confidence, and you believed him when he spoke with all the earnestness of self-conviction and of truth.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 by Various
