CONVICTION Copy link • CONVICTIONThe finding, or being fourd, guilty; circumlocution with convictus, compertus, etc. [ ☞ Convictio, in this sense, not Latin.] If it is his second conviction, on a charge of this kind, si quo in pari ante peccato convictus sit (Cic.): [If it is not necessary to distinguish between conviction and condemnation, Vid: CONDEMNATION.] Full persuasion, persuasio; but mostly by circumlocution with persuasum habere, etc. [Vid: “to be convinced, ’ under CONVINCE]. To entertain a full or firm conviction, persuasissimum habere; plenum persuasionis esse; mihi persuasissimum est; plane non dubito, quin certe scio (absolutely, and with accusative and infinitive).