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

One could not require a better illustration of that faculty of "apparently deep self-conviction" which Wirt had noted in the Chief Justice.

From John Marshall and the Constitution; a chronicle of the Supreme court by Corwin, Edward Samuel

He, Eben Tollman, would lead them both slowly into self-conviction by as deliberate a campaign as that which had won him his wife in the first instance.

From The Tyranny of Weakness by Stahr, Paul

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