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Persuade   /pərswˈeɪd/   Listen
Persuade

verb
(past & past part. persuaded; pres. part. persuading)
1.
Win approval or support for.  Synonyms: carry, sway.  "His speech did not sway the voters"
2.
Cause somebody to adopt a certain position, belief, or course of action; twist somebody's arm.  Antonym: dissuade.



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"Persuade" Quotes from Famous Books



... Lady Dudleigh, "it is worth trying—the other alternative is too terrible just yet. I hope to work upon his fears. I hope to persuade him to confess, and fly from the country to some place of safety. Frederick must be righted at all hazards, and I hope to show this so plainly to Sir Lionel that he will acquiesce in my proposal, confess all, save Frederick, and then fly to some ...
— The Living Link • James De Mille

... determined, in every event, to endure until the end, to fight until the end, to maintain his ground until the end. But if he had put sentiment from his path, it was not so easily weeded from his constitution, and while he was able to persuade himself that his renunciation of all passionate love—except as a bitter-sweet memory—was complete, he had to realise that the old grudge against Castrillon had grown into a formidable, unquenchable, over-mastering hatred. Where this strange obsession was concerned, no religious or other ...
— Robert Orange - Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange • John Oliver Hobbes

... "Perhaps your ladyship can persuade Lady Hartledon to exert herself," suggested the bland doctor. "I can't; and I confess I think that ...
— Elster's Folly • Mrs. Henry Wood

... "Well, try and persuade him to take the escort. If he will not, send the men out to the station to-night. I shall probably be there by the time they arrive, but you need not mention this to them. Give the impression, if you can, that I am on my way to Wyalla, and don't ...
— The Rider of Waroona • Firth Scott

... of modified servitude by which he was to be nominally free and actually kept to labour, and that he would rebel against the magistrate who tried to force him to work more fiercely than against his master; that the magistrate would never be able to persuade the slaves in their new character of apprentices to work as heretofore, and the military who would be called in to assist them could do nothing. He asked Stanley if he intended, when the military were called in, that they should fire on or bayonet the ...
— The Greville Memoirs - A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II • Charles C. F. Greville


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