Synonyms of the word

conviction

• n. (countable) A firmly held belief.
• n. (countable) A judgement of guilt in a court of law.
• n. (uncountable) The state of being found or proved guilty.
• n. (uncountable) The state of being convinced.

belief

• n. Mental acceptance of a claim as true.
• n. Faith or trust in the reality of something; often based upon one's own reasoning, trust in a claim, desire…
• n. (countable) Something believed.
• n. (uncountable) The quality or state of believing.
• n. (uncountable) Religious faith.
• n. (in the plural) One's religious or moral convictions.

condemnation

• n. The act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong; censure; blame; disapprobation.
• n. The act of judicially condemning, or adjudging guilty, unfit for use, or forfeited; the act of dooming…
• n. The state of being condemned.
• n. The ground or reason of condemning.
• n. The process by which a public entity exercises its powers of eminent domain.

sentence

• n. (obsolete) Sense; meaning; significance.
• n. (obsolete) One's opinion; manner of thinking.
• n. (now rare) A pronounced opinion or judgment on a given question.
• n. (dated) The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict.
• n. The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
• n. A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
• n. (obsolete) A saying, especially form a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm.
• n. (grammar) A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one…
• n. (logic) A formula with no free variables.
• n. (computing theory) Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar.
• v. To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to doom; to condemn to punishment.
• v. (obsolete) To decree or announce as a sentence.
• v. (obsolete) To utter sententiously.