单词 | cogency |
释义 | cogencyn.ΘΚΠ 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). ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1690 |
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