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persuadable, a.|pəˈsweɪdəb(ə)l|
Also 6 -yble.
[f. persuade v. + -able; but in earlier form ad. L. type *persuādibilis, f. persuādēre.]
†1. Having the quality of persuading, persuasive: = persuasible 1. Obs.
c1530L. Cox Rhet. (1899) 41 The ryght pleasaunt and parsuadyble arte of Rhetoryke.
2. Of a person: Capable of being persuaded; easy to persuade: = persuasible 2.
1598Florio, Suasibile, perswadable, that may be perswaded. 1679J. Goodman Penit. Pard. iii. iii. (1713) 310 He requires a perswadable, counsellable temper. 1788C. Reeve Exiles III. 89, I was rejoiced to find him so rational and persuadable. 1877Mrs. Oliphant Makers Flor. x. 252 They had no easy or persuadable ruler in their new Prior.
†3. Of a thing: That may be recommended to acceptance: = persuasible 3. Obs. rare.
1617Collins Def. Bp. Ely ii. vii. 275 You confesse your selfe that it is persuadeable, but by inducements, namely what others haue obserued, found, and experienced.
Hence persuadaˈbility (-iˈbility), perˈsuadableness; perˈsuadably adv.
1797Southey Let. to J. May 26 June in Life (1849) I. 317 There was a time when I believed in the *persuadibility of man, and had the mania of man-mending. 1871Persuadability [see persuasibility, quot. 1860]. 1889J. M. Robertson Ess. Crit. Method 71 The impulse to the struggle is the notion of persuadibility.
1742Richardson Pamela IV. 277 From what you intimate of Mr. H.'s Good Humour, and his *Persuadableness, if I may so say. 1889Blackw. Mag. Apr. 569 Extraordinary candour and persuadableness.
1611Cotgr., Persuasiblement, *persuadeably. 1632in Sherwood. [Hence 1818in Todd, and in Mod. Dicts.] |