单词 | persuading |
释义 | persuadingn. The action of persuade v. (in various senses). ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > [noun] leadinga1300 suasionc1374 persuasionc1384 inducingc1480 induction1490 persuading1530 persuade1590 persuase1599 overswaying1611 inducementa1616 moral suasion1642 sales pitchery1968 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 253/2 Persuadyng, persuasion. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Acts xix. C This Paul turneth awaye moch people with his persuadynge. a1631 J. Donne Βιαθανατος (1647) iii. v. §3 This perswading to his destruction. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xlii. 289 There was then no government by Coercion, but only by Doctrine, and Perswading. 1741 I. Watts Improvem. Mind (1801) xx. §33 193 Rhetoric in general is the art of persuading. 1778 W. Combe Let. to Duchess of Devonshire 43 The power of reasoning and the art of persuading. 1848 A. Brontë Tenant of Wildfell Hall II. iii. 50 When his first scruples of conscience were overcome, he would need no more persuading. 1877 H. James American xviii. 320 You make a distinction between persuading and commanding? 1906 Evening Post (N.Y.) 20 Jan. (Financial section) 7/1 By ‘twisting’ is meant the persuading of policyholders in one company to transfer their insurance to another. 1993 Guardian 16 Oct. 7/1 Churches are losing out to new-age gurus because they have lost the art of persuading and entertaining. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). persuadingadj. Persuasive; that persuades or convinces someone. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > [adjective] persuasiblea1425 persuasivec1487 persuadable1532 suading1557 persuasory1576 suasory1576 persuading1581 suasive1601 adamantic1605 inducing1606 inducive1611 inductious1620 flexanimous1621 pleaful1625 suasorian1646 psychagogical1822 psychagogic1846 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 8 His Epistle is..altogether of the perswading kinde. 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iv. ii. 52 He was..Exceeding wise, faire spoken, and perswading. a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) iii. 173 An argument, and perswading motive. 1677 W. Wycherley Plain-dealer iii. 39 She said you had a persuading face. 1745 T. Randall in Sc. Paraphrases xi. vi Though all men's eloquence adorn'd My sweet persuading tongue. 1832 F. A. Butler Jrnl. 20 Dec. (1835) II. 50 A very pretty one [sc.whip] it was, with a..charming persuading lash. 1865 E. Caswall May Pageant & Other Poems 35 Honeyed words of soft persuading force. 1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist v. 288 A touch fainter and more persuading than the touch of music or of a woman's hand. 2001 Centralian Advocate (Nexis) 28 Aug. 8 A candidate who is obviously looking at those north of the Berrimah Line as being the persuading voice of the Territory. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1530adj.1581 |
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