Word Finder - persuasion

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The act of persuading, or trying to do so; the addressing of arguments to someone with the intention of changing their mind or convincing them of a certain point of view, course of action etc.

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An argument or other statement intended to influence one's opinions or beliefs; a way of persuading someone.

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A strongly held conviction, opinion or belief.

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It is his persuasion that abortion should never be condoned.

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One's ability or power to influence someone's opinions or feelings; persuasiveness.

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A specified religious adherence, a creed; any school of thought or ideology.

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(by extension, often humorous) Another personal, animal or inanimate trait that is not (very) liable to be changed by persuasion, such as sex, gender, ethnicity, origin, profession or nature.

Conversion is to be effected by persuasion, not by the sword.

The world is happiest when this process is one of persuasion, goodwill, reason, logic, and negotiation.

The instruction and persuasion which St Bernard favoured found little imitation.

There are other methods of persuasion.

Henry first tried personal persuasion, and when that failed directed trial for heresy.

Together, in our play, we will be gentle persuasion.

They need to be resourceful, resilient and brilliant at motivating others through a combination of tact and persuasion.

Few men have ever had a more intimate persuasion that they were but instruments for good in the hands of God.

For now comes the great Sicel movement under Ducetius, who, between force and persuasion, came nearer towards uniting his people into one body than had ever been done before.

Can he use his Ivy League skills of persuasion to sway the game in his favor?

However that may be, it must be confessed even by Slavophils that he dragged his countrymen, more by force than by persuasion, from the paths of traditional routine and pushed them along with all his might on the broad road of progress in the modern sense of the term.

In the first degree there is a strong persuasion of the propriety of the impression made; the second and third degrees are produced by comparisons of the impression with others associated with it, and an analysis of itself.

The prominence given by most of the Sophists to rhetoric, their cultivation of a subjective readiness as the essential equipment for life, their substitution of persuasion for conviction, all mark the sceptical undertone of their teaching.

Many of them are, however, Hanijis (to which persuasion the Turks chiefly belong), and in parts of Lower, and almost universally in Upper, Egypt, Mdlikis.

At the close of 1614, however, the king sent for Donne to Theobald's, and "descended to a persuasion, almost to a solicitation of him, to enter into sacred orders," but Donne asked for a few days to consider.

Odeler's respect for the monastic profession is attested by his own retirement, a few years later, into a religious house which Earl Roger had founded at his persuasion.

From the beginning of the excesses of the French Revolution he was possessed by the persuasion that American democracy, likewise, might at any moment crush the restraints of the Constitution to enter on a career of licence and anarchy.

He did more, though in no sense a theologian; he declared himself on the side of the Contra-Remonstrants, and established a preacher of that persuasion in a church at the Hague (1617).

The chief associates of Eros are Pothos and Himeros (Longing and Desire), Peitho (Persuasion), the Muses and the Graces; he himself is in constant attendance on Aphrodite.

It took a lot of persuasion from Darren Cox to put black hydro into it!

Whatever your political persuasion, the CEP attracts members from the widest of groups.

A third way for coaches to help build confidence is through verbal persuasion.

He believed in reason and rational persuasion, not spin and rhetoric.

All objectives can normally be achieved with a mixture of tact, explanation and firm persuasion.

I wasn't even sure common ground was possible with career politicians of any persuasion.

His powers of persuasion overcame the strong repugnance of the chiefs to take up arms without effective foreign co-operation.

This seems an excellent and very practical plan of action to be recommended to budding songwriters of whatever musical persuasion.

I've never agreed with compulsory tithing but I'm open to persuasion.

He was everywhere, encouraging and compelling his men - it is a legend in the French army that the persuasion even of the imperial boot was used upon some of his reluctant conscripts, and in the result his system was fully justified, as it triumphed even against a great tactical surprise.

By what means Talleyrand brought him to do so, whether by persuasion, threats or bribes, is not known; but on that afternoon Barras left Paris under an escort of soldiers.

The planters in the Black Patch had met a combination of the buyers by forming a pool, the Planters' Protective Association, into which 40,000 growers were forced by " night-riding " and other forms of coercion and persuasion, and had thus secured an advance to I I cents a pound from the "regie " buyers and had shown the efficacy of pooling methods in securing better prices for the tobacco crop. Following their example, the planters of the Burley formed the Burley Tobacco Society, a Burley pool, with headquarters at Winchester and associated with the American Society of Equity, which promoted in general the pooling of different crops throughout the country.

Manitoba was the first to be constituted; in 1871 British Columbia, New which had hitherto held aloof, determined, under the persuasion of a sympathetic governor, Mr (later Sir) Antony Musgrave, to throw in its lot with the Dominion.

In these degenerate days their supernatural powers consist chiefly in conjuring, sooth-saying, and feats of jugglery, by which they seldom fail in imposing upon a credulous public. (3) Sannyasis, devotees who" renounce "earthly concerns, an order not confined either to the Brahmanical caste or to the Saiva persuasion.

And as each of the principal gods is supposed to have associated with him his own particular sakti, as an indispensable complement enabling him to properly perform his cosmic functions, adherents of this persuasion might be expected to be recruited from all sects.

To diplomacy he never pretended; persuasion and deceit were not the weapons he 1 See especially a Memoire presented to the king in 1666, published in the Lettres, Fee., de Colbert, vol.

Those numbered 11-22, written in 344, are almost all directed against the Jews; the subjects are circumcision, passover, the sabbath, persuasion (the encyclical letter referred to above), distinction of meats, the substitution of the Gentiles for the Jews, that Christ is the Son of God, virginity and holiness, whether the Jews have been finally rejected or are yet to be restored, provision for the poor, persecution, death and the last times.

Sadoleto had a remarkable talent for affairs and approved himself a faithful servant of the papacy in many difficult negotiations under successive popes, especially as a peacemaker; but he was no bigoted advocate of papal authority, and the great aim of his life was to win back the Protestants by peaceful persuasion - he would never countenance persecution - and by putting Catholic doctrine in a conciliatory form.

Richard Shackleton was endowed with a grave, pure and tranquil nature, constant and austere, yet not without those gentle elements that often redeem the drier qualities of his religious persuasion.

Perceiving that there were divisions and jealousies in the ranks of his opponents between Catholic and Protestant, Fleming and Walloon, he set to work by persuasion, address and bribery, to foment the growing discord, and bring back the Walloon provinces to the allegiance of the king.

I 've never agreed with compulsory tithing but I 'm open to persuasion.

This last task typically involves a litter box unless your animal is of the almost entirely outdoor persuasion.

Even those of the carnivorous persuasion will enjoy this dish.

Such interchanges have spurred many parodies of Mr. Thompson and his methods of persuasion.

Finding someone of the Christian persuasion to date is much easier when you know where to look.

Prior to online resources, it was far more difficult to identify individuals of this sexual persuasion and, oh the awkwardness of a poorly assessed advance!

However, some sites make it easier for persons of a specific persuasion to meet.

His psychic understanding of the people and world around him makes him valuable in the areas of intuition and persuasion.

It's no wonder that this sign is great in a sales position or any job that requires the art of persuasion.

Persuasive Tone -- An executive summary should be worded with persuasion in mind.

If your school has never done one before, it might take some persuasion with regards to the faculty.