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cogency|ˈkəʊdʒənsɪ|
[f. cogent: see -ency.]
†1. Compulsion; application of force. Obs.
1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. vii. iv. (1852) 532 Some of our churches used, it may be, a little too much of cogency towards the brethren.
2. The quality of being cogent; power of impelling or constraining; force (moral or logical).
1750Johnson Rambler No. 70 ⁋5 The power of desire, the cogency of distress. 1788T. Jefferson Writ. (1859) II. 514 Another motive of still more cogency on my mind. 1853Robertson Serm. Ser. iii. i. (1872) 10 The motive..would appear to many far-fetched and of small cogency.
b. esp. Power of compelling conviction or assent, convincing quality, forcibleness, logical or persuasive force.
1690Locke Hum. Und. iv. vii. §1 Maxims and Axioms..because they are self-evident, have been supposed innate, although nobody..ever went about to shew the Reason..of their clearness or cogency. 1759Johnson Rasselas xviii, Feeling the cogency of his own arguments. 1772Burke Corr. (1844) I. 366 He argued much, and truly not without cogency upon the subject. 1863E. Neale Anal. Th. & Nat. 203 To escape from the cogency of our own logic.
c. concr. (with pl.) A convincing argument, a forcible expression. rare.
1847L. Hunt Men, Women, & B. I. iv. 44 Rustical cogencies of oo and ou, the intelligible jargon of the Corydon or Thyrsis of Chalk-Ditch. 1851Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. I. 194 Maxims admitted as self-evident truths, undiscussed cogencies. |