Hester had only put into words a latent conviction of her own which troubled her.

Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost.

A latent conviction as to the immorality of all artists, which had been one of the maxims of her late mother, sprang into life.

"By the Lord Harry!" cried Carter, giving way suddenly to some latent conviction.