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
To hinder his pleading against her self-conviction, she re-opened her letter to prove the cruelty of the injustice.
From Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 2 by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
Paler she grew with every reproach—deeper was the self-conviction with every angry syllable.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 by Various
"What's that to you?" he replied irritatingly, with an ingrowing and obvious self-conviction of superiority and withdrawing as though he highly resented my question as condescending and intrusive.
From Twelve Men by Dreiser, Theodore
Such, my lord, I think her! not, indeed, from any certain documents; but from a self-conviction, founded, I repeat, upon progressive observations; which have the weight with me, now, of mathematical demonstration.'
From The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny
