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

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)

At those last words an unbearable pang of self-conviction and remorse shot through my heart.

From Cape Cod Folks by Greene, Sarah P. McLean

For it WAS cruel,' said Miss Pecksniff, with a self-conviction candour that might have adorned the diadem of her own papa.

From Martin Chuzzlewit by Dickens, Charles

"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