overpersuade
Americanverb (used with object)
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to persuade (a person) against their own inclination or intention.
By threats and taunts they had overpersuaded him to steal the car.
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to win or bring over by persuasion.
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Said he: "In telling facts, public leaders may sometimes be able to overpersuade or cajole the commentators, but the photographer's lens always remains true."
From Time Magazine Archive
We must beware of attempts to overpersuade or even coerce His Majesty's Government to bind themselves or their unknown successors in conditions which no one can foresee.
From Time Magazine Archive
And Wulfhere and I tried a little to overpersuade her, but then a groom came to say that all was ready.
From A Thane of Wessex by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler
Because by gaining her he would the more easily overpersuade her husband to give his consent.
From The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book by Anonymous
If she thinks that her misery will be greater in being engaged to a poor man, than,—than in relinquishing her love, she shall hear no word from me to overpersuade her.
From Castle Richmond by Anthony Trollope
Browne wanted to accompany him, but was overpersuaded.
From The Book of the National Parks by Robert Sterling Yard
Falling in with the famous Sylvester Graham, who was lecturing near her at the time, she was overpersuaded to change her habits very suddenly, especially her dietetic habits.
From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott
Amaury, despairing of success, offered his claims to the French King, and in 1223 Philip's successor, Louis VIII, overpersuaded by the Pope, accepted them.
From The Church and the Empire, Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304 by D. J. (Dudley Julius) Medley
Appeals to his curiosity finally overpersuaded him, and now it was my turn to wait on the bench while he invaded the realm of the Voices.
From From a Bench in Our Square by Samuel Hopkins Adams
How, then, has it come to pass that women have persuaded themselves, or have been overpersuaded, into the belief that a bonnet is the highest point of perfection in their dress?
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various
Therefore the rest of the commanders, overpersuading Archelaus, and drawing up the army, covered the plain with horses, chariots, bucklers, targets.
From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Arthur Hugh Clough
Hank doubtless felt that he had in a sense helped his old pal to death by overpersuading him.
From The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood
The latter gladly gave her permission, and lent her assistance in overcoming and overpersuading Ottilie's hesitation in assuming so sacred a personality.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Kuno Francke
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