Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To cause (someone) to accept a point of view or to undertake a course of action by means of argument, reasoning, or entreaty.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To advise; counsel; urge the acceptance or practice of; commend by exposition, argument, demonstration, etc.; inculcate.
- To lead to the opinion or conclusion (that); make (one) believe or think: frequently followed by that.
- To prevail upon, as by demonstration, exposition, argument, entreaty, expostulation, etc.; argue or reason into a certain belief or course of conduct; induce; win over.
- To convince, as by argument or reasons offered.
- Synonyms Convince, Persuade (see
convince ), prevail on,lead. - To use persuasion.
- noun Persuasion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To use persuasion; to plead; to prevail by persuasion.
- noun obsolete Persuasion.
- transitive verb To influence or gain over by argument, advice, entreaty, expostulation, etc.; to draw or incline to a determination by presenting sufficient motives.
- transitive verb Obsolescent To try to influence.
- transitive verb To convince by argument, or by reasons offered or suggested from reflection, etc.; to cause to believe.
- transitive verb To inculcate by argument or expostulation; to advise; to recommend.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To successfully convince (someone) to
agree to,accept , or do something, usually through reasoning and verbal influence. Comparesway . - verb transitive, dialectal To
urge ,plead ; to try toconvince (someone to do something).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb cause somebody to adopt a certain position, belief, or course of action; twist somebody's arm
- verb win approval or support for
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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The only people this movie might * possibly* persuade is people who were already on the fence and don't really care about any glaring ommissions from the film.
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He liked seemed taken aback at that; but he would fain persuade me 'at the rector was only in jest; and when that wouldn't do, he says,
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The new Book is going on at a regular rate; and I would fain persuade myself that/his/health and spirits are at the same regular rate improving: more contented he certainly is, since he applied himself to this task; for he was not born to be anything but miserable in idleness.
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The central insight from which Campbell is working is that the orator seeks to persuade people, and in general the best way to persuade is to produce perspicuous arguments.
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But the only power Bandow has is the power to persuade, which is in no way enhanced by such antics.
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He now had a way to achieve that objective, namely, persuade Syria to withdraw its forces from Lebanon.
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He now had a way to achieve that objective, namely, persuade Syria to withdraw its forces from Lebanon.
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-- a kindly means of saving faces for those whom he and I were going to "persuade" -- of making the "climb-down" easier for them!
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The legislators -- who represent parts of the 12th District -- and Mitchell were among those who tried during a Saturday conference call persuade Barrow to reconsider his vote.
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Slide 3: Definition & Importance of Presentation "A structured, prepared and speech-based means of communicating information, ideas, or arguments to a group of interested people in order to inform or persuade them" To inform, inspire, entertain, demonstrate, prove and to persuade, that is an objective of a good presentation 3
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