Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun etc. Obsolete spelling of
persuade , etc.
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- verb Obsolete spelling of
persuade .
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Examples
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Far be if from me, (answer'd he, bowing,) to renew the Memory of what may be distasteful; but I would fain perswade you to believe, that Heaven, which has so miraculously preserv'd your Life, will also make it happy. — — Surprising Things by a Hand unseen are often brought to pass: When you left Myrtano's House, you little suspected that the Person appointed for your Guide,
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“I perswade myself,” Dinwiddie ended, “you will receive & entertain Major Washington with the candour & politeness natural to your nation; & it will give me the greatest satisfaction, if you return him with an answer suitable to my wishes, for a very long & lasting peace between us.”
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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If you will undertake to perswade Dr Crotch to assemble all his fiddlers in a Druidical ring round his trunk, and place the audience on the turf, I promise to be there incase'd in the midst of them by 4 in the Afternoon with some bread and cheese in my pocket.
Letter 250 2009
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“I perswade myself,” Dinwiddie ended, “you will receive & entertain Major Washington with the candour & politeness natural to your nation; & it will give me the greatest satisfaction, if you return him with an answer suitable to my wishes, for a very long & lasting peace between us.”
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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I write now to Miss Sharp, for I am realy afraid she is ofended, and if I can perswade her that she has no cause I shall be a cleverer fellow yet than even you are aware of.
Letter 272 2009
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“I perswade myself,” Dinwiddie ended, “you will receive & entertain Major Washington with the candour & politeness natural to your nation; & it will give me the greatest satisfaction, if you return him with an answer suitable to my wishes, for a very long & lasting peace between us.”
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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“I perswade myself,” Dinwiddie ended, “you will receive & entertain Major Washington with the candour & politeness natural to your nation; & it will give me the greatest satisfaction, if you return him with an answer suitable to my wishes, for a very long & lasting peace between us.”
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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Paramount want's to perswade Paul Greengrass to get back on board.
Damon Says Next Bourne Might Be a Prequel Without Him « FirstShowing.net 2010
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Circumstances, made me ready to perswade my self, that the Gods had sent my Good Genius in that Figure, to beguile my Sufferings, and support my
Exilius 2008
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For, I perswade myself, this poor Woman meant, in some Degree, the Good of her Country, and the securing its Rights, Privileges, and Properties,
Exilius 2008
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