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persuasion

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noun

the act of persuading or seeking to persuade.

the power of persuading; persuasive force.

the state or fact of being persuaded or convinced.

a deep conviction or belief.

a form or system of belief, especially religious belief: the Quaker persuasion.

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a sect, group, or faction holding or advocating a particular belief, idea, ideology, etc.: Several of the people present are of the socialist persuasion.

Facetious. kind or sort.

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Origin:
1350–1400; late Middle English < Latin persuāsiōn- (stem of persuāsiō; see per-, suasion); replacing Middle English persuacioun < Middle French persuacion < Latin, as above

Related forms

pre·per·sua·sion, noun

self-per·sua·sion, noun

Synonyms
1. See advice.

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Example Sentences

But lot of persuasion may be necessary to get those graduates to take jobs where they are needed the most.

But these days, the chairman needs little persuasion to talk.

Knowing the laws of persuasion is especially handy with car dealers.

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But lot of persuasion may be necessary to get those graduates to take jobs where they are needed the most.

But these days, the chairman needs little persuasion to talk.

Knowing the laws of persuasion is especially handy with car dealers.

That's how strong their online powers of persuasion will have to be.

Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds.

But the region's airwaves have never been thicker with persuasion than now.

But their technological explorations can tantalize anyone of a geeky persuasion.

Such a bold declarative statement has the power of persuasion.

He is a renowned perfectionist but gets his way through persuasion rather than tantrums.

It is the whole basis of both persuasion speech and pc words.

Persuasion by expertise is much preferable to persuasion by force.

Often, this is done through peer pressure and subtle forms of persuasion.

But they will not all travel in the same direction without a little persuasion.

He likes nothing more than taking on a room of hostile unionists, and he has a heroic belief in his own powers of persuasion.

His charms and powers of persuasion are all part of what make him so dangerous.

Whether these shifts were good or bad depends on your political persuasion.

But cynics doubt that this owed much to the commissioner's powers of persuasion.

What happens when an artifact of persuasion encounters the modern marketplace.

Prevention and persuasion are more effective than coercion.

The emphasis has always been persuasion and voluntary relocation".

And there's no better persuasion tool than an invisible pain ray that makes.

The language of persuasion is different for men and women.

Imitation in this case is not a form of flattery but of subtle persuasion.

The essence of teaching is persuasion which is based on logos, pathos and ethos.

What we're seeing is a set of once disparate pieces coming together into a powerfully unified persuasion machine.

In fact, it does the exact opposite, by demonstrating why terrorism doesn't work as a tool of persuasion and policy change.

Knauer pushed for consumer protections, favoring persuasion over regulation.

It sounds to me as if it's the persuasion part that needs shoring.

It was a difficult sell, and he used all of his celebrated skills of persuasion.

It is the politician's job to use persuasion and trade-offs to turn minorities into majorities, however slim.

Unfortunately the elderly person is often so far under the sway of the controlling one that mere persuasion does not work.

Money and political persuasion will dominate the selection of jurors as it does in the appointments of judges.

Their skills in the art of people persuasion sometimes make people buy something they do not even need.

Engineers have the talents and skills required to provide that persuasion.

It is a simple matter of fact that ideologues of all persuasion are eternally on the lookout for things to get offended about.

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Collins

World English Dictionary

persuasion (pəˈsweɪʒən)

—n
1.	the act of persuading or of trying to persuade
2.	the power to persuade
3.	the state of being persuaded; strong belief
4.	an established creed or belief, esp a religious one
5.	a sect, party, or faction

[C14: from Latin persuāsiō; see persuade]

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Word Origin & History

persuasion

late 14c., "action of inducing (someone) to believe (something)," from O.Fr. persuasion (14c.), from L. persuasionem (nom. persuasio) "a convincing, persuading," from persuadere "persuade," from per- "thoroughly, strongly" + suadere "to urge, persuade," from PIE *swad-. Meaning "religious belief, creed"

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is from 1620s.

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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia

persuasion

the process by which a person's attitudes or behaviour are, without duress, influenced by communications from other people. One's attitudes and behaviour are also affected by other factors (for example, verbal threats, physical coercion, one's physiological states). Not all communication is intended to be persuasive; other purposes include informing or entertaining. Persuasion often involves manipulating people, and for this reason many find the exercise distasteful. Others might argue that, without some degree of social control and mutual accommodation such as that obtained through persuasion, the human community becomes disordered. In this way, persuasion gains moral acceptability when the alternatives are considered. To paraphrase Winston Churchill's evaluation of democracy as a form of government, persuasion is the worst method of social control-except for all the others

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