Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having power or tendency to persuade; persuasive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Persuasive.
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- adjective
persuasive
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Examples
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This, as my mother was pleased to tell me, being the last persuasory effort that is to be attempted, I will be particular in the account of it as my head and my heart will allow it to be.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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This, as my mother was pleased to tell me, being the last persuasory effort that is to be attempted, I will be particular in the account of it as my head and my heart will allow it to be.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 Samuel Richardson 1725
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