convince
verb (used with object)
to move by argument or evidence to belief, agreement, consent, or a course of action.
convincement
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a word derived from
convince.
Example Sentences
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"I'm like the Scotchman—ready for convincement, but I'd like to see the man who could do it."
From The Shadow World by Hamlin Garland
You may succeed in showing by every convincement, that you are his natural master and superior, and that there is every reason on earth why you should command and direct him.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 by Various
Is there among you any growth in the truth; and hath any convincement appeared since last year?
From A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 1 by Thomas Clarkson
"They're all convincin' to a mind that's open to convincement, but I'd like to pick out the one that's most so."
From Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 by Various
But when they once enter, the work of convincement is complete.
From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves
