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- verb archaic Third-person singular present simple form of
persuade
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Examples
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To paraphrase King Agrippa, “almost thou persuadeth me to be a Quaker.”
On Not Raising Up Children unto the Lord. | Mind on Fire 2008
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But whosoever persuadeth by reasoning from principles written maketh him to whom he speaketh judge; both of the meaning of those principles and also of the force of his inferences upon them.
Leviathan 2007
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Saying, This fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.
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Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will deliver us.
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Saying, This fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.
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Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will deliver us.
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He selleth the sales pitch of doom to the unsuspecting Eve, who then persuadeth Adam to also partake and alas, paradise was lost.
wilberteets Diary Entry wilberteets 2003
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That to the stronger the weaker shall serve — thereto persuadeth he his will who would be master over a still weaker one.
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Because they learned badly and not the best, and everything too early and everything too fast; because they ATE badly: from thence hath resulted their ruined stomach; — — For a ruined stomach, is their spirit: IT persuadeth to death!
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One persuadeth their bowels otherwise; I am not their physician and teacher.
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