convictions
Saykuhn-VIK-shuhnz/kənˈvɪk.ʃənz/
- 1Plural of conviction.
Her deepest convictions guided every decision she made.
The court overturned two of his earlier convictions on appeal.
Note
Only the countable meanings of conviction take a plural, so the form belongs to two of them: firmly held beliefs and court judgments of guilt. The states of being wholly convinced or of being found guilty do not pluralize, so you speak with conviction, not with convictions. Context separates the two that remain: political convictions are beliefs, while overturned convictions are verdicts.
convictions is a form of conviction
conviction, noun: A belief that someone holds firmly and feels certain about. Full entry
- Forms
- convictionconvictions plural
- Spelling
- conviction → convictions: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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