单词 | persuasiveness |
释义 | persuasivenessn. The quality of being persuasive; the power of persuasion. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > [noun] > persuasiveness motion1533 persuasion1540 rhetoric1569 Suada1592 persuasiveness1611 suasiveness1727 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words at Persuasibilità Perswasiuenesse. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iii. 11 The best perswasiveness of his flattery, consisted in down-right arguments of gold, and silver. 1715 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I. iii. 21 (note) Nestor's Eloquence..consisted in Softness and Persuasiveness. 1790 J. Adams Woman 267 Calista would soothe her Cleon with a delicate persuasiveness. 1820 T. Jefferson Let. 4 Aug. in Writings (1984) 1436 An eloquence and persuasiveness which have not been surpassed. 1881 W. Collins Black Robe i. iv. 164 There was a tender persuasiveness in her tones. 1936 E. Underhill Worship xii. 251 Gazing on the Saints in their manifest humanity, their heroic virtue and ‘spiritual persuasiveness’. 1991 Atlantic Dec. 124/3 The persuasiveness of thoughtless, unsubstantiated attacks on feminism was a tribute to the force of repetition. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1611 |
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