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▪ I. perˈsuading, vbl. n.
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb persuade; persuasion.
1530Palsgr. 253/2 Persuadyng, persuasion. 1535Coverdale Acts xix. 26 This Paul turneth awaye moch people with his persuadyng. a1614Donne βιαθανατος (1644) 198 This perswading to his destruction. 1651Hobbes Leviath. iii. xlii. 289 There was then no government by Coercion, but only by Doctrine, and Perswading.
▪ II. perˈsuading, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That persuades; persuasive.
1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 8 His Epistle is..altogether of the perswading kinde. 1613Shakes. Hen. VIII, iv. ii. 52 He was..Exceeding wise, faire spoken, and perswading. a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. iii. (1642) 173 An argument, and perswading motive. 1745T. Randall in Sc. Paraphr. xi. vi, Though all men's eloquence adorn'd My sweet persuading tongue.
Hence perˈsuadingly adv., persuasively.
1552Huloet Perswadynglye, persuasibiliter. 1614J. Cooke Tu Quoque in Dodsley O. Pl. VII. 71 Some fitter time Shall bring me more persuadingly unto her. |