cogencen.
/ˈkəʊdʒəns/ rare.
= cogency n.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > vigour or force > [noun]
eloquence1382
elocution1509
gravity?1520
pith?1531
vigour1532
emphasy1548
energy?1549
emphasisa1555
pithiness1557
abruptness1591
emphaticalness1647
nervousness1727
cogency1750
forcibility1771
cogence1782
verve1803
forcefulness1825
force1842
snap1870
full-bloodedness1894
punch1901
compulsiveness1918
punchiness1938
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > process of reasoning, ratiocination > argument, source of conviction > [noun] > strength of argument
strength?c1400
of…validity1581
logic1601
pregnancy1622
solidity1646
cogency1690
pregnantness1727
validness1727
cogence1782
1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 227 An argument of cogence, we may say.
1805 J. Foster Ess. i. v. 69 Find something of more athletic cogence.
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