convictions
pronunciation
How to pronounce convictions in British English:
UK 
How to pronounce convictions in American English:
US
Word Origin
- convictions (n.)
- "those ideas which one believes to be true," 1883, plural of conviction.
Example
- 1. The five convictions secured so far have ended such talk .
- 2. Typically , when the psi gets involved , criminal convictions soon follow .
- 3. And his past , including 36 arrests ( though no convictions ) in the 1980s and 1990s , had come to light .
- 4. Plainclothes officers now covertly buy drugs almost daily , gathering intelligence for convictions .
- 5. Proving intent in a courtroom is famously hard to do , so few such exchanges result in convictions .