suasive
/ˈsweɪsɪv
/adjective
1 formal Serving to persuade.Character is one of the most important instructive and suasive devices in literature, Fowler points out....
- In contrast, presidents' inaugural addresses have been described as suasive messages that are crafted to showcase the newly elected president as a national leader.
- The inaugural address is regarded as an essentially suasive speech in which the president may articulate his vision of what the nation can and should be.
1.1 Grammar Denoting a class of English verbs, for example insist, whose meaning includes the notion of persuading and which take a subordinate clause whose verb may either be in the subjunctive or take a modal.Suasive verbs imply intentions to bring about some change in the future (eg, command, stipulate)....
- Both public and private verbs are interesting in the present analysis; by contrast, suasive verbs are too rare to deserve special attention.
- plough-boon
- ploughboote
- ploughbote
- ploughboy
- plough bullock
- plough clevis
- plough day
- plough driver
- ploughed-back
- ploughed-out
- ploughed-up
- plougher
- plough-gang
- ploughgear
- plough grinding
- plough handle
- plough-head
- plough-in
- ploughing-back
- ploughing day
- ploughing ground
- ploughing land
- ploughing match
- plough iron
- plough jack