persuasive
Adjective
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Adjective
persuasive
- able to persuade; convincing
- French: persuasif, persuasive, convaincant, convaincante
- German: überzeugend, Überredungs-
- Russian: убеди́тельный
- Spanish: persuasivo, convincente
persuasive (plural persuasives)
- That which persuades; incitement.
- 1839, George Robert Gleig, Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary: Visited in 1837 (volume 1, page 68)
- He smiled a very knowing smile, and setting up a halloo, and shaking his leathern thong, away we went at the rate of seven or eight miles an hour. I had no occasion to go further with my persuasives; the pace was kept up, […]
- 1839, George Robert Gleig, Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary: Visited in 1837 (volume 1, page 68)
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