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unperˈsuadable, a.
[un-1 7 b, 5 b.]
†1. Not removable by persuasion. Obs.—1
a1586Sidney Arcadia i. xv, Who (finding his sisters unperswadeable melancholy..) had for a time left her court.
2. Not susceptible to persuasion; obstinate.
1611Florio, Inpersuadibile, vnperswadable. 1647Trapp Comm. Col. iii. 6 Unperswadable, uncounsellable persons, that regard not good courses. 1668Howe Bless. Righteous xii. 219 They..are utterly unperswadable towards God. 1748Richardson Clarissa I. 48 A mind, till now, not thought either unpersuadable or ungenerous! 1817T. L. Peacock Melincourt xxi, After a certain period of life..men in general become perfectly unpersuadable to all practical purposes. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xviii. vii. V. 149 Deploring that sad mistake; but unpersuadable to stand, and try amendment of it.
absol.1685Baxter Paraphr. N.T. Matt. iii. 12 He will burn the unbelievers and unperswadable as chaff.
Hence unperˈsuadableness.
1615Byfield Expos. Colos. iii. 6 They will not be persuaded by the..servants of God; and so they are children of unpersuadableness. 1685Baxter Paraphr. N.T. Acts xxi. 14 His resolution and unperswadableness. 1748Richardson Clarissa II. 57 Resentment and unpersuadableness are not natural to you. 1786A. Gib Sacr. Contempl. 306 Children of disobedience, of unpersuadableness. |