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persuasion(dictionary)
persuasion(dictionary)
PERSUASION(law)

persuasion (iou)



persuasion noun. Also perswasion. LME.
[Latin persuasio(n-), from persuas- pa. ppl stem of persuadere PERSUADE: see -ION.]
The action or an act of persuading or trying to persuade; something tending or intended to induce belief or action; an argument, an inducement. LME.
E. A. Freeman By force or persuasion, he gained over to his side the Princes of Aquitaine. Times The full cogency of their persuasions. Times Literary Supplement Backgrounding the intellectual propositions and foregrounding the moral persuasions of religion. Scots Magazine His is always the voice of persuasion, not strident condemnation.
b. Persuasiveness. E17.
Lytton The persuasion of his silvery tongue.
The fact or condition of being persuaded or convinced of something, assurance; something of which one is persuaded, a belief, a conviction. E16.
J. Priestley My doubts were..converted into a full persuasion. D. Brewster His persuasion of Flamsteed's fitness for the work.
spec. A religious belief, opinion, or creed. Now also, a political opinion or standpoint. E17.
W. Lippmann Totalitarian states..of the fascist or the communist persuasion. E. Saintsbury Sincere in their religious beliefs though not of the same persuasion.
b. A body of people holding a particular religious belief; a sect, a denomination. E18.
J. I. M. Stewart Uncle Norman..a cleric, although of the presbyterian persuasion.
c. A kind, a sort, a nationality. joc. M19.
G. H. Lewes Homernot I believe a gentleman of the Caledonian persuasion. Oxford English Dictionary No one of the male persuasion was present.