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"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

Also, convincement may grow into certainty as the evidence to support it becomes altogether incertitude.

From The Price by Lynde, Francis

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 Clarkson, Thomas

But what is the difference between the convincement achieved by poetic and the convincement achieved by prose art? 

From Old Familiar Faces by Watts-Dunton, Theodore

"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 Garland, Hamlin