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单词 cogency
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cogencyn.

/ˈkəʊdʒənsi/
Etymology: < cogent adj.: see -ency suffix.
1. Compulsion; application of force. Obsolete.
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society > authority > subjection > obedience > compulsion > [noun]
needeOE
distressc1384
force1387
stressc1390
artingc1400
coactionc1400
constrainauncec1400
compulsion1462
enforcement1477
coercion1495
forcement1524
enforcing1531
strain1532
constraint1533
coercement1592
constrainment1593
duress1596
compulse1616
obligement1641
cogency1702
coercive control1827
steamrolling1879
compression1880
1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi vii. iv. 27/1 Some of our Churches used, it may be, a little too much of Cogency towards the Brethren.
2.
a. The quality of being cogent; power of impelling or constraining; force (moral or logical).
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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
1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 70. ⁋5 The power of desire, the cogency of distress.
1788 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) II. 514 Another motive of still more cogency on my mind.
a1853 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1872) 3rd Ser. i. 10 The motive..would appear to many far-fetched and of small cogency.
b. esp. Power of compelling conviction or assent, convincing quality, forcibleness, logical or persuasive force.
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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
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iv. vii. 299 Maxims and Axioms..because they are self-evident, have been supposed innate, without that any Body..ever went about to shew the reason..of their clearness or cogency.
1759 S. Johnson Prince of Abissinia I. xviii. 123 Feeling the cogency of his own arguments.
1772 E. Burke Corr. (1844) I. 366 He argued much, and truly not without cogency upon the subject.
1863 E. V. Neale Analogy Thought & Nature 203 To escape from the cogency of our own logic.
c. concrete (with plural) A convincing argument, a forcible expression. rare.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > process of reasoning, ratiocination > argument, source of conviction > [noun] > strength of argument > instance of
pregnancy1622
cogency1847
1847 L. Hunt Men, Women, & Bks. I. iv. 44 Rustical cogencies of oo and ou, the intelligible jargon of the Corydon or Thyrsis of Chalk-Ditch.
1851 F. Palgrave Hist. Normandy & Eng. I. 194 Maxims admitted as self-evident truths, undiscussed cogencies.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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