Word Meanings - CONVINCINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

in a convincing manner; in a manner to compel assent.

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• CONVINCIBLE
  1. Capable of being convinced or won over. 2. Capable of being confuted and disproved by argument; refutable. Sir T. Browne.
• ASSENTATORY
  Flattering; obsequious. -- As*sent"a*to*ri*ly, adv.
• ASSENTER
  One who assents.
• CONVINCER
  One who, or that which, convinces; one who wins over by proof.
• ASSENTMENT
  Assent; agreement.
• COMPELLATION
  Style of address or salutation; an appellation. "Metaphorical compellations." Milton. He useth this endearing compellation, "My little children." Bp. Beveridge. The peculiar compellation of the kings in France is by "Sire," which is nothing else
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• ASSENTATOR
  An obsequious; a flatterer.
• COMPELLABLE
  Capable of being compelled or constrained. Blackstone.
• ASSENTING
  Giving or implying assent. -- As*sent"ing*ly, adv.
• COMPELLER
  One who compels or constrains.
• ASSENTIVE
  Giving assent; of the nature of assent; complying. -- As*sent"ive*ness, n.
• COMPELLATIVE
  The name by which a person is addressed; an appellative.
• ASSENTATION
  Insincere, flattering, or obsequious assent; hypocritical or pretended concurrence. Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. Ld. Chesterfield.
• COMPEL
  1. To drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to force; to constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical or moral force. Wolsey . . . compelled the people to pay up the whole subsidy at once. Hallam. And they compel one Simon . .
• ASSENTIENT
  Assenting.
• CONVINCINGNESS
  The power of convincing, or the quality of being convincing.
• COMPELLABLY
  By compulsion.
• CONVINCE
  1. To overpower; to overcome; to subdue or master. His two chamberlains Will I with wine and wassail so convince That memory, the warder of the brain, Shall be a fume. Shak. 2. To overcome by argument; to force to yield assent to truth; to satisfy
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• INCONVINCIBLY
  In a manner not admitting of being convinced.
• DISASSENT
  To dissent.
• CLOUD-COMPELLER
  Cloud-gatherer; -- an epithet applied to Zeus. Pope.
• DISASSENTER
  One who disassents; a dissenter. State Trials .
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.