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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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
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
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
It was a spontaneous throe of the imagination, which had force to overpersuade the organs of perception.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 by Various
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
Now, gentlemen, he comes on the stand and swears that he made this affidavit, not being overpersuaded by Bosler, but because Dorsey with tears and groans besought him to make it.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal by Robert Green Ingersoll
She knew that for some better reason than that he was overpersuaded by Pappoose, Mr. Folsom had not carried out his project of sending them back to Gate City.
From Warrior Gap A Story of the Sioux Outbreak of '68. by Charles King
They overpersuaded Madison, and on June 18th, 1812, war with Great Britain was declared.
From This Country of Ours by H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth) Marshall
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
She always preferred remaining at home; and yet, perhaps, to-day she might have allowed herself to have been overpersuaded, had she not found herself so extremely weak.
From O. T. a Danish Romance by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen
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
Hank doubtless felt that he had in a sense helped his old pal to death by overpersuading him.
From The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood
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
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