Conviction vs. Sentence

Convictionnoun

(countable) A firmly held belief.

Convictionnoun

(countable) A judgement of guilt in a court of law.

Convictionnoun

(uncountable) The state of being found or proved guilty.

Convictionnoun

(uncountable) The state of being wholly convinced.

Convictionnoun

The act of convicting; the act of proving, finding, or adjudging, guilty of an offense.

Convictionnoun

A judgment of condemnation entered by a court having jurisdiction; the act or process of finding guilty, or the state of being found guilty of any crime by a legal tribunal.

Convictionnoun

The act of convincing of error, or of compelling the admission of a truth; confutation.

Convictionnoun

The state of being convinced or convicted; strong persuasion or belief; especially, the state of being convicted of sin, or by one's conscience.

Convictionnoun

an unshakable belief in something without need for proof or evidence

Convictionnoun

(criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed;

Conviction

In law, a conviction is the verdict that usually results when a court of law finds a defendant guilty of a crime. The opposite of a conviction is an acquittal (that is, ).

Sentencenoun

(dated) The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict.

Sentencenoun

The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime.

Sentencenoun

A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.

Sentencenoun

(obsolete) A saying, especially from a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm.

Sentencenoun

(grammar) A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied, and typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop.

Sentencenoun

(logic) A formula with no free variables.

Sentencenoun

(computing theory) Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar.

Sentencenoun

(obsolete) Sense; meaning; significance.

Sentencenoun

(obsolete) One's opinion; manner of thinking.

Sentencenoun

A pronounced opinion or judgment on a given question.

Sentenceverb

To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to doom; to condemn to punishment.

Sentenceverb

(obsolete) To decree or announce as a sentence.

Sentenceverb

(obsolete) To utter sententiously.

Sentencenoun

Sense; meaning; significance.

Sentencenoun

An opinion; a decision; a determination; a judgment, especially one of an unfavorable nature.

Sentencenoun

A philosophical or theological opinion; a dogma; as, Summary of the Sentences; Book of the Sentences.

Sentencenoun

In civil and admiralty law, the judgment of a court pronounced in a cause; in criminal and ecclesiastical courts, a judgment passed on a criminal by a court or judge; condemnation pronounced by a judicial tribunal; doom. In common law, the term is exclusively used to denote the judgment in criminal cases.

Sentencenoun

A short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a maxim; an axiom; a saw.

Sentencenoun

A combination of words which is complete as expressing a thought, and in writing is marked at the close by a period, or full point. See Proposition, 4.

Sentenceverb

To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of.

Sentenceverb

To decree or announce as a sentence.

Sentenceverb

To utter sententiously.

Sentencenoun

a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language;

Sentencenoun

(criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed;

Sentencenoun

the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned;

Sentenceverb

pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law;