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CONVICTION

Volume 7 · 60 words · 1842 Edition

in Law. When a jury has given a verdict, upon trial, finding the prisoner guilty, he is said to be convicted of the crime of which he stands indicted.

in Theology, expresses the first degree of repentance, in which the sinner becomes sensible of his guilt, of the evil nature of sin, and of the danger of his own ways.