Guilt vs. Conviction

Guiltnoun

Responsibility for wrongdoing.

Guiltnoun

Awareness, feeling of having done wrong; remorse.

Guiltnoun

The fact of having done wrong.

Guiltnoun

(law) The state of having been found guilty or admitted guilt in legal proceedings.

Guiltverb

To commit offenses; act criminally.

Guiltverb

(transitive) To cause someone to feel guilt, particularly in order to influence their behaviour.

Guiltnoun

The criminality and consequent exposure to punishment resulting from willful disobedience of law, or from morally wrong action; the state of one who has broken a moral or political law; crime; criminality; offense against right.

Guiltnoun

Exposure to any legal penalty or forfeiture.

Guiltnoun

A feeling of regret or remorse for having committed some improper act; a recognition of one's own responsibility for doing something wrong.

Guiltnoun

the state of having committed an offense

Guiltnoun

remorse caused by feeling responsible for some offence

Guiltnoun

the fact of having committed a specified or implied offence or crime

Guiltnoun

a feeling of having committed wrong or failed in an obligation

Guiltverb

make (someone) feel guilty, especially in order to induce them to do something

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, ).