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Word Meanings - PERSUADED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Prevailed upon; influenced by argument or entreaty; convinced. -- Per*suad"ed*ly, adv. -- Per*suad"ed*ness, n.

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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.
  • ENTREATY
    1. Treatment; reception; entertainment. B. Jonson. 2. The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation. Fair entreaty, and sweet blandishment. Spenser. Syn. -- Solicitation; request; suit; supplication;
  • CONVINCER
    One who, or that which, convinces; one who wins over by proof.
  • INFLUENCIVE
    Tending toinfluence; influential.
  • PREVAILINGLY
    So as to prevail.
  • ARGUMENTIZE
    To argue or discuss. Wood.
  • ARGUMENTATIVE
    1. Consisting of, or characterized by, argument; containing a process of reasoning; as, an argumentative discourse. 2. Adductive as proof; indicative; as, the adaptation of things to their uses is argumentative of infinite wisdom in the Creator.
  • ARGUMENTAL
    Of, pertaining to, or containing, argument; argumentative.
  • INFLUENCE
    Induction. Syn. -- Control; persuasion; ascendency; sway; power; authority; supremacy; mastery; management; restraint; character; reputation; prestige. (more info) 1. A flowing in or upon; influx. God hath his influence into the very essence of
  • PREVAIL
    1. To overcome; to gain the victory or superiority; to gain the advantage; to have the upper hand, or the mastery; to succeed; -- sometimes with over or against. When Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed, and when he let down his hand, Amalek
  • ARGUMENTABLE
    Admitting of argument. Chalmers.
  • INFLUENCER
    One who, or that which, influences.
  • ARGUMENT
    The quantity on which another quantity in a table depends; as, the altitude is the argument of the refraction. (more info) 1. Proof; evidence. There is.. no more palpable and convincing argument of the existence of a Deity. Ray. Why, then, is it
  • CONVINCINGNESS
    The power of convincing, or the quality of being convincing.
  • 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
  • CONVINCEMENT
    Act of convincing, or state of being convinced; conviction. The fear of a convincement. Milton.
  • CONVINCINGLY
    in a convincing manner; in a manner to compel assent.
  • ARGUMENTATION
    1. The act of forming reasons, making inductions, drawing conclusions, and applying them to the case in discussion; the operation of inferring propositions, not known or admitted as true, from facts or principles known, admitted, or proved to be
  • PREVAILMENT
    Prevalence; superior influence; efficacy. Shak.
  • PREVAILING
    1. Having superior force or influence; efficacious; persuasive. Shak. Saints shall assist thee with prevailing prayers. Rowe. 2. Predominant; prevalent; most general; as, the prevailing disease of a climate; a prevailing opinion. Syn.
  • INCONVINCIBLY
    In a manner not admitting of being convinced.
  • REARGUMENT
    An arguing over again, as of a motion made in court.
  • INCONVINCIBLE
    Not convincible; incapable of being convinced. None are so inconvincible as your half-witted people. Gov. of the Tongue.
  • OVERINFLUENCE
    To influence in an excessive degree; to have undue influence over.

 

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