persuasionn.

Brit.

/pəˈsweɪʒn/, U.S.

/pərˈsweɪʒ(ə)n/

Forms: Middle English persuacion, Middle English persuacioun, Middle English persuacon, Middle English– persuasion, 1500s persuasione, 1500s perswacion, 1500s perswagion, 1500s perswasyon, 1500s prerswacion (transmission error), 1500s–1600s perswation, 1500s–1700s perswasion, 1500s– persuation (now irregular), 1600s persuansion (transmission error), 1600s perswatyon; Scottish pre-1700 parsuatioun, pre-1700 persuacione, pre-1700 persuasione, pre-1700 persuasioun, pre-1700 persuasioune, pre-1700 persuation, pre-1700 persuatioun, pre-1700 persuatioune, pre-1700 perswacion, pre-1700 perswasion, pre-1700 perswasioun, pre-1700 perswation, pre-1700 perswatioun, pre-1700 1700s– persuasion, 1800s persuadgeon, 1900s– perswashin.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French persuasion; Latin persuāsiōn-, persuāsiō.

Etymology: < Middle French, French persuasion act of persuading (1315), (especially convincing) argument (c1370), state of being convinced (1549), opinion, belief, conviction (1549) and its etymon classical Latin persuāsiōn-, persuāsiō act of persuading, capacity to convince, persuasiveness, belief, conviction < persuās- , past participial stem of persuādēre persuade v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Catalan persuasió (1399), Spanish persuasión (15th cent.), Portuguese persuasão (1573; earlier as persuasõoes, plural (15th cent.)), Italian persuasione (beginning of the 14th cent.).

a. The action or an act of persuading or attempting to persuade; the addressing of arguments or appeals to a person in order to induce cooperation, submission, or agreement; the presenting of persuasive reasoning or compelling arguments.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > [noun]

leadinga1300

suasionc1374

persuasionc1384

inducingc1480

induction1490

persuading1530

persuade1590

persuase1599

overswaying1611

inducementa1616

moral suasion1642

sales pitchery1968

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Gal. v. 8 To no man consente ȝe; forsoth this persuacioun [a1425 L.V. counsel; L. Persuasio], or softe mouynge, is not of hym that clepide ȝou.

1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 67 Ther may no persuasions nor holsom counseil auaile.

a1525 J. Irland Of Penance & Confession in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1923) I. 61 Be perswasioun of other seruandis of the enemy.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. v. f. 24^v Seduced by theyr perswasions and prouocations.

a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) v. v. 11 The English Lords By his perswasion, are againe falne off.

1697 J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ I. i. iii. 10 These he by his Perswasions appeas'd.

1738 F. Moore Trav. Inland Afr. 191 Natives, who had been got up together at the Persuasion of a Black Fellow.

1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1869) II. xlv. 674 The arts of persuasion were tried without success.

1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. v. 472 Promises and persuasions being unavailing, they tried threats.

1894 J. N. Maskelyne ‘Sharps & Flats’ 170 It does not need much persuasion to induce the ‘mug’ to take the bank.

1940 Economist 20 July 73/2 He [sc. Ernest Bevin]..is transferring persons to war work by pressure and persuasion rather than by compulsion.

1993 Time (Atlantic ed.) 4 Jan. 23/1 Clinton views successful leadership as a process of persuasion rather than preachment.

b. Power of persuading; persuasiveness.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > [noun] > persuasiveness

motion1533

persuasion1540

rhetoric1569

Suada1592

persuasiveness1611

suasiveness1727

1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus 114 Perswasion sytteth in thy lyppes.

1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) 71 If the perswasion of these fewe words, haue brought you to a compromise, I haue said ynough.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. iv. 341 Ist possible that my deserts to you Can lacke perswasion ?

1695 R. Blackmore Prince Arthur iv. 123 On his Lips charming Perswasion hung.

1746 C. Macklin Henry VII i. i. 4 A soothing Carriage Which beggars the Persuasion of his Tongue.

1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy I. xix. 119 Persuasion hung upon his lips, and the elements of Logick and Rhetorick were so blended up in him.

1859 E. Bulwer-Lytton What will he do with It? (1st Edinb. ed.) III. viii. i. 192 No printer's type can record his decorous grace—the persuasion of his silvery tongue.

1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation v. 166 For teaching there is required a persuasion as well as for advocacy, though of a different kind.

1936 Harper's Mag. Apr. 573/1 The preacher or orator whose message is canned beforehand never reaches the emotional heights of persuasion that his ‘ad libbing’ brother does on a rival rostrum.

1988 Antioch Rev. Fall 417 ‘Smart, Irv,’ the big man said, all the persuasion of a born closer creeping into his voice.

2. An argument, appeal, etc., intended to induce belief or action; a means of persuading someone. Usually in plural.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > [noun] > that which persuades

persuasiona1398

inductivea1420

inducement1597

persuasive1626

suasorya1632

suasive1670

nest-egg1678

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 19 Þe gyleful enemye..sleþ by gile of venemus, perfite persuaciouns [L. persuasionis], and be gileful counsailes.

c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame 872 A good persuasion [v.r. persuacon]..hyt is; and lyk to be Ryght so as thou hast preved me.

a1500 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (Trin. Dublin) (1893) 72 (MED) A stronge louer..wil not bileue þe wily persuasions of þe enemy.

1598 E. Ford Parismus sig. G3^v A sufficient perswasion to all, that Parismus..was murthered.

1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia iii. 63 For his relation we gaue him many toyes, with perswasions to goe with vs.

1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity vii. 21 It is likely the imposing Priests would pretend either of these to the people..as persuasions of the presence of the Dæmons themselves.

1751 F. Coventry Hist. Pompey the Little ii. xi. 227 Qualmsick immediately posted up Stairs to his Wife's Apartment to try the Effect of his Persuasions upon her.

1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. vii. 272 She had turned a deaf ear to the persuasions by which they sought to prevail on her.

1883 R. Broughton Belinda II. ix. 135 If she had yielded to Sarah's passionate persuasions to delay her marriage for one month!

1927 Passing Show Summer 22/1 One night, yielding to the persuasions of a copper's nark, he sold a box of matches after 8 p.m.

1989 Atlantic Aug. 36/2 The implausible persuasions of advertising.

a. Something which one believes; a belief, conviction, or opinion (that something is so).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > act of convincing, conviction > [noun] > firm opinion, conviction

persuasion?1510

conviction1841

?1510 T. More tr. G. Pico della Mirandola in tr. G. F. Pico della Mirandola Lyfe I. Picus sig. d.iii This is a very dedly and monstrous persuasione which hath entred the myndes of men.

a1530 T. Lupset Exhort. to Yonge Men (1535) sig. B.iii You muste prynte in your mynde, with a perfect perswasion that your soule is the chief treasure, that you haue.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Eee3 I cannot but be raised to this perswasion, that [etc.] .

a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1690) Pref. Examin the following Perswasions, which I find too currant in the World.

1737 D. Waterland Rev. Doctr. Eucharist 175 My Perswasion..is, that the Passage relates not at all to the Eucharist.

1792 G. Wakefield Mem. (1804) II. 392 Nor can a single syllable in support of such uncompassionate persuasions be produced from the Christian Scriptures.

1845 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 I. viii. 551 The unsoundness of the conclusion..might inspire a reasonable distrust of the correctness of the persuasions.

1860 W. Collins Woman in White (new ed.) I. 71 It will always remain my private persuasion that [etc.].

1909 H. G. Wells Tono-Bungay (U.K. ed.) iii. i. 280 He made a motion pocketwards, that gave us an invincible persuasion that he had a sample upon him.

1991 Classical Rev. 41 309 He is inspired by an enthusiastic persuasion that all the old problems and dilemmas must find their solution.

b. The fact, condition, or state of being persuaded or convinced; conviction, assurance, certain belief. Now archaic.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > act of convincing, conviction > [noun] > state of being convinced

persuasion1534

satisfaction1582

convictment1593

persuadedness1659

self-conviction1673

implicitness1679

conviction1699

unsuspicion1792

unsuspiciousness1809

convincement1825

unsuspectfulness1852

unquestioningness1876

convincedness1882

unsuspectingness1883

1534 T. More in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. II. 51 The knowledge of your trew graciouse persuation in that behalfe.

1601 A. Dent Plaine Mans Path-way to Heauen 268 In the very elect, & those which are growne to the greatest perswasion.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 152 Perswasion in me grew That I was heard with favour.

1762 S. Scott Descr. Millenium Hall 110 The full persuasion of Mrs. Morgan's unhappiness..was a source of continual grief to her mind.

1777 J. Priestley Matter & Spirit (1782) I. Pref. 8 My doubts were..converted into a full persuasion.

1855 D. Brewster Mem. Life I. Newton (new ed.) II. xx. 221 He intimated to Newton..his persuasion of Flamsteed's fitness for the work.

1902 W. C. Smith Poet. Wks. 77 He, in full persuasion that the end Had well begun, was tender, cheerful, kind.

1998 H. A. Harris Fundamentalism & Evangelicals iv. 136 The Westminster Confession attributes our full persuasion of the infallibility of scripture to ‘the inward work of the Holy Spirit’.

a. A form or system of religious belief; a creed. In later use also: a school of thought, esp. in politics. Usually with modifying word.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > creed > [noun]

credoeOE

trothc1175

creance1393

trutha1400

symbol1490

confession1536

judgement1609

persuasion1623

creed1676

Shemaa1699

shahāda1885

creditability1886

1588 ‘M. Marprelate’ Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges: Epist. 25 The said Iohn Cant. hath many things in him, which euidently shew a catholike perswasion.]

1623 J. Donne Encænia sig. A2 Any matter of Controuersie betweene vs, and those of the Romane Perswasion.

1656 A. Wright Five Serm. To Rdr. sig. A6 Those of the Episcopal perswasion.

1687 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 404 Persons of the congregational persuasion in the citty of Norwich.

1736 S. Chandler Hist. Persecution 335 His Excellency..deposed those Magistrates who were of the Remonstrant Persuasion.

1795 W. Paley View Evidences Christianity (ed. 3) I. i. v. 99 The exertions of the founder [of Christianity] and his followers in propagating the new persuasion.

1808 ‘P. Plymley’ Eighth, Ninth & Last Let. ix. 20 I detest that state of society which extends unequal degrees of protection to different creeds, and persuasions.

1862 A. Trollope Orley Farm II. xiii. 100 Nor at first sight would it probably have been discerned that he was of the Hebrew persuasion.

1888 G. Saintsbury Ess. Eng. Lit. (1891) 184 His political satires would have galled Tories,..and could hardly be read by persons of that persuasion with such complete enjoyment.

1923 R. Macaulay Told by Idiot ii. xii. 108 His record showed him to be of the anarchist persuasion.

1991 Sci. Amer. Aug. 24/1 After decades of Darwinian indoctrination, we have our own creationists of a religious, rather than a Lysenkoist, persuasion.

b. A group of people holding a particular religious belief; a sect, a denomination.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > religion > a religion or church > [noun]

churcheOE

kirkc1175

spousea1200

lawa1225

lorea1225

religionc1325

faithc1384

sectc1386

seta1387

leara1400

hirselc1480

professiona1513

congregation1526

communion1553

schism1555

segregation1563

sex1583

hortus conclususa1631

confessiona1641

dispensation1643

sectary1651

churchship1675

cult1679

persuasion1732

denomination1746–7

connection1753

covenant1818

sectarism1821

organized religion1843

1732 True & Faithful Narr. in J. Swift Misc. III. ii. 275 All the different Persuasions kept by themselves.

1822 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 7 Dec. 3/1 Thursday last, in this city, was observed as a day of thanksgiving and prayer, by those attached to the Presbyterian persuasion.

1863 G. J. Whyte-Melville Gladiators III. 11 These were the Essenes, a persuasion that reject pleasure as a positive evil.

1902 Daily Chron. 28 July 7/3 Protestantism, meaning by that all the non-Roman Catholic persuasions, has held its own, but the Roman Catholics are still steadily dwindling.

1991 R. Oliver Afr. Experience (1993) vii. 84 The record of a conference held in 411..lists 286 Catholic and 284 Donatist bishops..and provides the principal evidence for the geographical distribution of the two persuasions.

c. colloquial and humorous. A group or collection linked by a shared characteristic, quality, or attribute. Esp. in early use in of the —— persuasion: of a (specified) nationality, occupation, inclination, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > [noun]

kindeOE

i-cundeOE

mannera1225

jetc1330

colour1340

hair1387

estrete1393

gendera1398

hedea1400

savourc1400

stockc1450

toucha1500

rate1509

barrel1542

suit1548

fashion1562

special1563

stamp1573

family1598

garb1600

espece1602

kidney1602

bran1610

formality1610

editiona1627

make1660

cast1673

tour1702

way1702

specie1711

tenor1729

ilk1790

genre1816

stripe1853

persuasion1855

1855 Harper's Mag. July 227/1 You may tell your Aunt Mastodon so, and all your other relatives of the Pharisee persuasion.

1861 G. H. Lewes Let. 2 July in ‘G. Eliot’ Lett. (1954) III. 434 It is notorious that Aytoun's greatest poet was Homer—not I believe a gentleman of the Caledonian persuasion.

1885 ‘F. Anstey’ Tinted Venus vii. 78 She said she thought it was..a gentleman in the hair-cutting persuasion.

1902 R. Hichens Londoners 33 A sinister moustache of the tooth-brush persuasion.

1969 Jrnl. Royal Hort. Soc. 94 241 ‘Gloire de Dijon’ over a century old, is also of the tea rose persuasion.

1995 Vogue Dec. 27/3 They're from a mixed marriage and get to see every ethnic, sexual and political persuasion here.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	persuasion
释义	persuasionn. Brit. /pəˈsweɪʒn/, U.S. /pərˈsweɪʒ(ə)n/ Forms: Middle English persuacion, Middle English persuacioun, Middle English persuacon, Middle English– persuasion, 1500s persuasione, 1500s perswacion, 1500s perswagion, 1500s perswasyon, 1500s prerswacion (transmission error), 1500s–1600s perswation, 1500s–1700s perswasion, 1500s– persuation (now irregular), 1600s persuansion (transmission error), 1600s perswatyon; Scottish pre-1700 parsuatioun, pre-1700 persuacione, pre-1700 persuasione, pre-1700 persuasioun, pre-1700 persuasioune, pre-1700 persuation, pre-1700 persuatioun, pre-1700 persuatioune, pre-1700 perswacion, pre-1700 perswasion, pre-1700 perswasioun, pre-1700 perswation, pre-1700 perswatioun, pre-1700 1700s– persuasion, 1800s persuadgeon, 1900s– perswashin. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French persuasion; Latin persuāsiōn-, persuāsiō. Etymology: < Middle French, French persuasion act of persuading (1315), (especially convincing) argument (c1370), state of being convinced (1549), opinion, belief, conviction (1549) and its etymon classical Latin persuāsiōn-, persuāsiō act of persuading, capacity to convince, persuasiveness, belief, conviction < persuās- , past participial stem of persuādēre persuade v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Catalan persuasió (1399), Spanish persuasión (15th cent.), Portuguese persuasão (1573; earlier as persuasõoes, plural (15th cent.)), Italian persuasione (beginning of the 14th cent.). 1. a. The action or an act of persuading or attempting to persuade; the addressing of arguments or appeals to a person in order to induce cooperation, submission, or agreement; the presenting of persuasive reasoning or compelling arguments. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > [noun] leadinga1300 suasionc1374 persuasionc1384 inducingc1480 induction1490 persuading1530 persuade1590 persuase1599 overswaying1611 inducementa1616 moral suasion1642 sales pitchery1968 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Gal. v. 8 To no man consente ȝe; forsoth this persuacioun [a1425 L.V. counsel; L. Persuasio], or softe mouynge, is not of hym that clepide ȝou. 1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 67 Ther may no persuasions nor holsom counseil auaile. a1525 J. Irland Of Penance & Confession in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1923) I. 61 Be perswasioun of other seruandis of the enemy. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. v. f. 24^v Seduced by theyr perswasions and prouocations. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) v. v. 11 The English Lords By his perswasion, are againe falne off. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ I. i. iii. 10 These he by his Perswasions appeas'd. 1738 F. Moore Trav. Inland Afr. 191 Natives, who had been got up together at the Persuasion of a Black Fellow. 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1869) II. xlv. 674 The arts of persuasion were tried without success. 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. v. 472 Promises and persuasions being unavailing, they tried threats. 1894 J. N. Maskelyne ‘Sharps & Flats’ 170 It does not need much persuasion to induce the ‘mug’ to take the bank. 1940 Economist 20 July 73/2 He [sc. Ernest Bevin]..is transferring persons to war work by pressure and persuasion rather than by compulsion. 1993 Time (Atlantic ed.) 4 Jan. 23/1 Clinton views successful leadership as a process of persuasion rather than preachment. b. Power of persuading; persuasiveness. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > [noun] > persuasiveness motion1533 persuasion1540 rhetoric1569 Suada1592 persuasiveness1611 suasiveness1727 1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus 114 Perswasion sytteth in thy lyppes. 1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) 71 If the perswasion of these fewe words, haue brought you to a compromise, I haue said ynough. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. iv. 341 Ist possible that my deserts to you Can lacke perswasion ? View more context for this quotation 1695 R. Blackmore Prince Arthur iv. 123 On his Lips charming Perswasion hung. 1746 C. Macklin Henry VII i. i. 4 A soothing Carriage Which beggars the Persuasion of his Tongue. 1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy I. xix. 119 Persuasion hung upon his lips, and the elements of Logick and Rhetorick were so blended up in him. 1859 E. Bulwer-Lytton What will he do with It? (1st Edinb. ed.) III. viii. i. 192 No printer's type can record his decorous grace—the persuasion of his silvery tongue. 1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation v. 166 For teaching there is required a persuasion as well as for advocacy, though of a different kind. 1936 Harper's Mag. Apr. 573/1 The preacher or orator whose message is canned beforehand never reaches the emotional heights of persuasion that his ‘ad libbing’ brother does on a rival rostrum. 1988 Antioch Rev. Fall 417 ‘Smart, Irv,’ the big man said, all the persuasion of a born closer creeping into his voice. 2. An argument, appeal, etc., intended to induce belief or action; a means of persuading someone. Usually in plural. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > [noun] > that which persuades persuasiona1398 inductivea1420 inducement1597 persuasive1626 suasorya1632 suasive1670 nest-egg1678 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 19 Þe gyleful enemye..sleþ by gile of venemus, perfite persuaciouns [L. persuasionis], and be gileful counsailes. c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame 872 A good persuasion [v.r. persuacon]..hyt is; and lyk to be Ryght so as thou hast preved me. a1500 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (Trin. Dublin) (1893) 72 (MED) A stronge louer..wil not bileue þe wily persuasions of þe enemy. 1598 E. Ford Parismus sig. G3^v A sufficient perswasion to all, that Parismus..was murthered. 1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia iii. 63 For his relation we gaue him many toyes, with perswasions to goe with vs. 1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity vii. 21 It is likely the imposing Priests would pretend either of these to the people..as persuasions of the presence of the Dæmons themselves. 1751 F. Coventry Hist. Pompey the Little ii. xi. 227 Qualmsick immediately posted up Stairs to his Wife's Apartment to try the Effect of his Persuasions upon her. 1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. vii. 272 She had turned a deaf ear to the persuasions by which they sought to prevail on her. 1883 R. Broughton Belinda II. ix. 135 If she had yielded to Sarah's passionate persuasions to delay her marriage for one month! 1927 Passing Show Summer 22/1 One night, yielding to the persuasions of a copper's nark, he sold a box of matches after 8 p.m. 1989 Atlantic Aug. 36/2 The implausible persuasions of advertising. 3. a. Something which one believes; a belief, conviction, or opinion (that something is so). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > act of convincing, conviction > [noun] > firm opinion, conviction persuasion?1510 conviction1841 ?1510 T. More tr. G. Pico della Mirandola in tr. G. F. Pico della Mirandola Lyfe I. Picus sig. d.iii This is a very dedly and monstrous persuasione which hath entred the myndes of men. a1530 T. Lupset Exhort. to Yonge Men (1535) sig. B.iii You muste prynte in your mynde, with a perfect perswasion that your soule is the chief treasure, that you haue. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Eee3 I cannot but be raised to this perswasion, that [etc.] . View more context for this quotation a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1690) Pref. Examin the following Perswasions, which I find too currant in the World. 1737 D. Waterland Rev. Doctr. Eucharist 175 My Perswasion..is, that the Passage relates not at all to the Eucharist. 1792 G. Wakefield Mem. (1804) II. 392 Nor can a single syllable in support of such uncompassionate persuasions be produced from the Christian Scriptures. 1845 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 I. viii. 551 The unsoundness of the conclusion..might inspire a reasonable distrust of the correctness of the persuasions. 1860 W. Collins Woman in White (new ed.) I. 71 It will always remain my private persuasion that [etc.]. 1909 H. G. Wells Tono-Bungay (U.K. ed.) iii. i. 280 He made a motion pocketwards, that gave us an invincible persuasion that he had a sample upon him. 1991 Classical Rev. 41 309 He is inspired by an enthusiastic persuasion that all the old problems and dilemmas must find their solution. b. The fact, condition, or state of being persuaded or convinced; conviction, assurance, certain belief. Now archaic. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > act of convincing, conviction > [noun] > state of being convinced persuasion1534 satisfaction1582 convictment1593 persuadedness1659 self-conviction1673 implicitness1679 conviction1699 unsuspicion1792 unsuspiciousness1809 convincement1825 unsuspectfulness1852 unquestioningness1876 convincedness1882 unsuspectingness1883 1534 T. More in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. II. 51 The knowledge of your trew graciouse persuation in that behalfe. 1601 A. Dent Plaine Mans Path-way to Heauen 268 In the very elect, & those which are growne to the greatest perswasion. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 152 Perswasion in me grew That I was heard with favour. View more context for this quotation 1762 S. Scott Descr. Millenium Hall 110 The full persuasion of Mrs. Morgan's unhappiness..was a source of continual grief to her mind. 1777 J. Priestley Matter & Spirit (1782) I. Pref. 8 My doubts were..converted into a full persuasion. 1855 D. Brewster Mem. Life I. Newton (new ed.) II. xx. 221 He intimated to Newton..his persuasion of Flamsteed's fitness for the work. 1902 W. C. Smith Poet. Wks. 77 He, in full persuasion that the end Had well begun, was tender, cheerful, kind. 1998 H. A. Harris Fundamentalism & Evangelicals iv. 136 The Westminster Confession attributes our full persuasion of the infallibility of scripture to ‘the inward work of the Holy Spirit’. 4. a. A form or system of religious belief; a creed. In later use also: a school of thought, esp. in politics. Usually with modifying word. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > creed > [noun] credoeOE trothc1175 creance1393 trutha1400 symbol1490 confession1536 judgement1609 persuasion1623 creed1676 Shemaa1699 shahāda1885 creditability1886 1588 ‘M. Marprelate’ Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges: Epist. 25 The said Iohn Cant. hath many things in him, which euidently shew a catholike perswasion.] 1623 J. Donne Encænia sig. A2 Any matter of Controuersie betweene vs, and those of the Romane Perswasion. 1656 A. Wright Five Serm. To Rdr. sig. A6 Those of the Episcopal perswasion. 1687 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 404 Persons of the congregational persuasion in the citty of Norwich. 1736 S. Chandler Hist. Persecution 335 His Excellency..deposed those Magistrates who were of the Remonstrant Persuasion. 1795 W. Paley View Evidences Christianity (ed. 3) I. i. v. 99 The exertions of the founder [of Christianity] and his followers in propagating the new persuasion. 1808 ‘P. Plymley’ Eighth, Ninth & Last Let. ix. 20 I detest that state of society which extends unequal degrees of protection to different creeds, and persuasions. 1862 A. Trollope Orley Farm II. xiii. 100 Nor at first sight would it probably have been discerned that he was of the Hebrew persuasion. 1888 G. Saintsbury Ess. Eng. Lit. (1891) 184 His political satires would have galled Tories,..and could hardly be read by persons of that persuasion with such complete enjoyment. 1923 R. Macaulay Told by Idiot ii. xii. 108 His record showed him to be of the anarchist persuasion. 1991 Sci. Amer. Aug. 24/1 After decades of Darwinian indoctrination, we have our own creationists of a religious, rather than a Lysenkoist, persuasion. b. A group of people holding a particular religious belief; a sect, a denomination. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > religion > a religion or church > [noun] churcheOE kirkc1175 spousea1200 lawa1225 lorea1225 religionc1325 faithc1384 sectc1386 seta1387 leara1400 hirselc1480 professiona1513 congregation1526 communion1553 schism1555 segregation1563 sex1583 hortus conclususa1631 confessiona1641 dispensation1643 sectary1651 churchship1675 cult1679 persuasion1732 denomination1746–7 connection1753 covenant1818 sectarism1821 organized religion1843 1732 True & Faithful Narr. in J. Swift Misc. III. ii. 275 All the different Persuasions kept by themselves. 1822 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 7 Dec. 3/1 Thursday last, in this city, was observed as a day of thanksgiving and prayer, by those attached to the Presbyterian persuasion. 1863 G. J. Whyte-Melville Gladiators III. 11 These were the Essenes, a persuasion that reject pleasure as a positive evil. 1902 Daily Chron. 28 July 7/3 Protestantism, meaning by that all the non-Roman Catholic persuasions, has held its own, but the Roman Catholics are still steadily dwindling. 1991 R. Oliver Afr. Experience (1993) vii. 84 The record of a conference held in 411..lists 286 Catholic and 284 Donatist bishops..and provides the principal evidence for the geographical distribution of the two persuasions. c. colloquial and humorous. A group or collection linked by a shared characteristic, quality, or attribute. Esp. in early use in of the —— persuasion: of a (specified) nationality, occupation, inclination, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > [noun] kindeOE i-cundeOE mannera1225 jetc1330 colour1340 hair1387 estrete1393 gendera1398 hedea1400 savourc1400 stockc1450 toucha1500 rate1509 barrel1542 suit1548 fashion1562 special1563 stamp1573 family1598 garb1600 espece1602 kidney1602 bran1610 formality1610 editiona1627 make1660 cast1673 tour1702 way1702 specie1711 tenor1729 ilk1790 genre1816 stripe1853 persuasion1855 1855 Harper's Mag. July 227/1 You may tell your Aunt Mastodon so, and all your other relatives of the Pharisee persuasion. 1861 G. H. Lewes Let. 2 July in ‘G. Eliot’ Lett. (1954) III. 434 It is notorious that Aytoun's greatest poet was Homer—not I believe a gentleman of the Caledonian persuasion. 1885 ‘F. Anstey’ Tinted Venus vii. 78 She said she thought it was..a gentleman in the hair-cutting persuasion. 1902 R. Hichens Londoners 33 A sinister moustache of the tooth-brush persuasion. 1969 Jrnl. Royal Hort. Soc. 94 241 ‘Gloire de Dijon’ over a century old, is also of the tea rose persuasion. 1995 Vogue Dec. 27/3 They're from a mixed marriage and get to see every ethnic, sexual and political persuasion here. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1384
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