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Suasion   /swˈeɪʒən/   Listen
Suasion

noun
1.
The act of persuading (or attempting to persuade); communication intended to induce belief or action.  Synonym: persuasion.  Antonym: dissuasion.






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"Suasion" Quotes from Famous Books



... time were the Emperor and his young "Confucius" idle? By no means. They had hatched a counterplot, and had decided that what they could not do by moral suasion and statesmanship they would do by force, and so they sent an order to Yuan Shih-kai, who as we have said had drilled and was in charge of 12,500 of the best troops in the empire, urging him to "hasten to the capital at once, place the Empress ...
— Court Life in China • Isaac Taylor Headland

... sister congregation, (all single congregations being equal in power and authority, none superior, none inferior to others.) Now, in these and such like cases, suppose both parties be resolute and wilful, and will not yield to any bare moral suasion or advice without some superior authority, what healing is left in such cases, without the assistance of an authoritative presbytery, wherein the whole hath power to regulate ...
— The Divine Right of Church Government • Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London

... the book lies in the human interest of the sympathetically told story; its value in the excellent lessons that are suggested to the youthful mind in the most unobtrusive manner. Nothing is so distasteful to a healthy youngster as an overdose of obvious moral suasion ...
— The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys • Gulielma Zollinger

... if anybody should come in unexpectedly while it's working, the whole thing will be tipped over and the house set on fire. Uncle Israel won't have any lock or bolt on his door for fear he should die in the night. He relies wholly on the bath cabinet and moral suasion. Nobody knocks on doors here, anyway—just ...
— At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern • Myrtle Reed

... showing him pictures of birds. He needs strong reasoning and exhortation, not bird-lore. To-day it is necessary to employ the most direct, forceful and at times even rude methods. Where slaughtering cannot be stopped by moral suasion, it must be stopped with a hickory club. The thing to do is to get results, and get them quickly, before ...
— Our Vanishing Wild Life - Its Extermination and Preservation • William T. Hornaday


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