persuasive

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Unless group-testing shows it still to be persuasive, that is.

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  1. adjective Tending or having the power to persuade: a persuasive argument.

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  • Unless group-testing shows it still to be persuasive, that is. —  Think Progress
  • It is curious that the wand of the enchanter during the Golden Age of "Ould Ireland" should prove to have been the all-persuasive, all-powerful "shtick XIII CROPPED GORTATLEA, CO. KERRY, Monday, Dec. —  Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
  • On each occasion she had felt a thrill like that of music--persuasive, living vibrations passing to remote recesses of her being No nearer had she ever come to the man she loved, no nearer had he sought to come. —  The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
  • Instead of the well known clucking sound used among ourselves as a persuasive, the Persian makes a sound not unlike the bleating of a sheep; a stranger, being within hearing and out of sight of a gang of donkey drivers in a hurry to reach their destination, would be more likely to imagine himself in the vicinity of a flock of sheep than anything else. —  Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran
  • His argument for compassion is balanced yet persuasive, and long overdue.
 

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  1. Formerly also perswasive; from Old French (and F.) persuasif, adjective, persuasive, n., = Provencal persuasiu = Spanish Portuguese Italian persuasivo, from Latin persuadere, past participle persuasus, persuade: see persuade.
 

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