Persuasion
[pə'sweɪʒ(ə)n] or [pɚ'sweʒn]
Definition
(noun.) the act of persuading (or attempting to persuade); communication intended to induce belief or action.
Typist: Yvette--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of persuading; the act of influencing the mind by arguments or reasons offered, or by anything that moves the mind or passions, or inclines the will to a determination.
(n.) The state of being persuaded or convinced; settled opinion or conviction, which has been induced.
(n.) A creed or belief; a sect or party adhering to a certain creed or system of opinions; as, of the same persuasion; all persuasions are agreed.
(n.) The power or quality of persuading; persuasiveness.
(n.) That which persuades; a persuasive.
Typist: Willard
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Influence, inducement, incitement, suasion, bringing over.[2]. Conviction, creed, belief, doctrine, tenet, dogma, way of thinking.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Conviction, inducement, creed, belief, opinion,[See CONVICTION]
Typist: Natalie
Examples
- Harriet could not long resist so delightful a persuasion. Jane Austen. Emma.
- I therefore pleaded another engagement; and observing that Mrs. Micawber's spirits were immediately lightened, I resisted all persuasion to forego it. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He gave his consent with very little persuasion. Jane Austen. Emma.
- I feel a strong persuasion, this morning, that I shall soon be abroad. Jane Austen. Emma.
- If not, we must try the young lady's persuasion; and that is what anybody but you would have done at first. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Dorothea quietly persisted in spite of remonstrance and persuasion. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Elizabeth was determined; nor did Sir William at all shake her purpose by his attempt at persuasion. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- She completely dispelled the persuasion that Asia was in some irrevocable way hopelessly behind Europe. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This eventwhich seemed so untoward--which I thought had ruined at once my chance of successful persuasion--proved my best help. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Had he known how the case really stood, he would hardly have been induced by any persuasion to cross his former rival's threshold. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I suppose it's no use trying any persuasion, said the Rector. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I wish I had the gift of persuasion, and could incline you to speak willingly. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Yorkshire people are as yielding to persuasion as they are stubborn against compulsion. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- And drawing him a little aside, she whispered her persuasion that Lucy could not stay much longer. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- For time and persuasion and the love of pleasure may enchant a man into a change of purpose, and the force of grief and pain may compel him. Plato. The Republic.
- It will cost me several cups of tea, some toast and cake, and an ample measure of remonstrances, expostulations, and persuasions. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The writer has his own very strong and definite persuasions, and the reader must bear that in mind. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I suppose we were all more or less curious; at any rate, when the old man added his persuasions to hers and said, Aye, aye! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- As speech developed, men would find they had experiences and persuasions that gave them or seemed to give them power. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But as such were Fanny's persuasions, she suffered very much from them, and could never speak of Miss Crawford without pain. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- By dint of a few more gentle assurances and persuasions, Miss Helstone contrived to soothe the agitated lady. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- His conferences with his confessor I might guess; the part duty and religion were made to play in the persuasions used, I might conjecture. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Under certain persuasions, from certain quarters, je vous vois d'icisaid he, eagerly subscribing to the sacrifice, passionately arming for the effort. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- You have widely mistaken my character, if you think I can be worked on by such persuasions as these. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
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