conviction
B1CEFR level
30/100Rarity: fairly common
NeutralRegister
General noun
A firmly held belief, or the quality of being firm and sincere in one's beliefs.
She argued with a conviction that gradually won over even the sceptics.
Law noun
A formal finding or admission of guilt that results in the defendant being sentenced.
A conviction for fraud would end her career in financial services.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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