Definition of "self-conviction" []

• The act of convicting one's self, or the state of being self-convicted. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• ""You are swept up by the production's splendid self-conviction," says the Independent's Paul Taylor, who otherwise confesses to some doubts about the plot."
• "As I write this I realize it is primarily an exercise in self-conviction, or delusion."
• "If anything, that should be a veritable recharge station for his narcissism and self-conviction."