overpersuadev.
/ˌəʊvəpəˈsweɪd/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərpərˈsweɪd/ transitive. To bring over by persuasion, persuade effectually; esp. to persuade (a person) to some action or course against his or her own judgement or inclination. Also: to persuade to an excessive extent.
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the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > persuade (a person) [verb (transitive)] > win over
procurec1325
to gain over1582
bribe1592
overwork1593
overwin1600
smooth1608
overpersuade1639
spirit1656
over-entreata1661
engage1699
to bring over1724
to draw over1734
conciliate1796
to carry over1855
1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iii. xxvi. 156 They over-persuaded him not to starve an armie by feeding his own humours.
1703 M. Pix Different Widows iii. 31 I did not believe him: Yet he wou'd come back, and over-persuade me.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. iii. ii. 160 Nor had he done it now, had not the younger Sportsman..over-persuaded him. View more context for this quotation
1818 M. L. Weems Let. in Ford's M. L. Weems: Wks. & Ways (1929) III. 225 One night, getting half shaved, he was easily over-persuaded (a common curse of whiskey) to try his luck at All Fours.
1841 J. F. Cooper Deerslayer I. iii. 45 You will allow..that a Mingo is more than half devil..though you want to over-persuade me that the Delaware tribe is pretty much made up of angels.
1897 G. A. Henty On Irrawaddy 350 I had proposed to myself not to marry..but your sister overpersuaded me.
1922 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 211/2 In 1802, overpersuaded by Pitt, he took his seat in the cabinet.
1976 New Yorker 8 Mar. 128/2 And there is reason to think that anti-technologists sometimes overpersuade themselves of the achievements of the past in other fields.
2001 Chicago Daily Law Bull. (Nexis) 20 Mar. 1 Cumulative evidence of other conduct can overpersuade the jury to convict the defendant as a bad person, rather than because he was guilty of the crime charged.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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