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Conviction vs Convention - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between conviction and convention

is that conviction is a firmly held belief while convention is a meeting or gathering.

conviction

English

(wikipedia conviction)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (countable) A firmly held belief.
  • (countable) A judgement of guilt in a court of law.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=December 14 , author=Steven Morris , title=Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave , work=Guardian citation , page= , passage=He said Robins had not been in trouble with the law before and had no previous convictions . Jail would have an adverse effect on her and her three children as she was the main carer.}}
  • (uncountable) The state of being found or proved guilty.
  • (uncountable) The state of being convinced.
  • * 2013 , Daniel Taylor, Rickie Lambert's debut goal gives England victory over Scotland'' (in ''The Guardian , 14 August 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/aug/14/england-scotland-international-friendly]
    • The visitors were being pinned back by the end of the first half. Yet Gordon Strachan's side played with great conviction and always had a chance of springing a surprise when their opponents were so susceptible at the back.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Related terms

    * convict ----

    convention

    English

    (wikipedia convention)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A meeting or gathering.
    • The convention was held in Geneva.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=May 30 , author=Katherine Stewart , title=How Christian fundamentalists plan to teach genocide to schoolchildren , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=The CEF and the legal advocacy groups that have been responsible for its tremendous success over the past ten years are determined to "Knock down all doors, all the barriers, to all 65,000 public elementary schools in America and take the Gospel to this open mission field now! Not later, now!" in the words of a keynote speaker at the CEF's national convention in 2010.}}
  • A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates
    • ''The EU installed an inter-institutional Convention to draft a European constitution
  • The convening of a formal meeting
  • A formal agreement, contract or pact
  • (international law) A treaty or supplement to such.
    • ''The Vienna convention at the Vienna Congress (1814-15) standardized most of diplomatic conduct for generations
  • A generally accepted principle, method or behaviour.
  • *
    • In order to account for this, we might propose to make the Prepositional Phrase an optional constituent of the Verb Phrase: this we could do by re-
    placing rule (28) (ii) by rule (40) below:
    (40)      VP → V AP (PP)
    (Note that a constituent in parentheses is, by convention , taken to be
    optional.)
    ''Table seatings are generally determined by tacit convention , not binding formal protocol
    The convention of driving on the right is reinforced by law.

    Derived terms

    * by convention * coding conventions * conventional, conventionally * conventionalize * conventioneer * convention centre, convention center * naming convention * pictorial convention * trade convention

    Related terms

    * convener * convent * convenient * conventicle