persuasion
noun
the act of persuading or seeking to persuade.
self-persuasion
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a word derived from
persuasion.
Example Sentences
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In asserting that the Browns wanted the story made public, Brooks is "guilty of a degree of blinkeredness if not self-persuasion".
From The Guardian ● Nov. 29, 2012
Those qualities that many critics find cloying could also be melodic acts of self-persuasion.
From Time Magazine Archive
But a man's self-persuasion cannot alter such laws—nor can human laws confirm or nullify them, nor can a great religion do more than admit their truth, basing its creed upon such laws.
From The Younger Set by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Let me acknowledge that there was much need of self-persuasion to arrive at this conclusion.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 by Various
He spoke with all the passionate self-persuasion of a fanatic, and Del Fortis judged it wisest to control his own fierce inward impatience and deal with him more restrainedly.
From Temporal Power by Marie Corelli
