suasion
noun
the act of advising, urging, or attempting to persuade; persuasion.
suasive
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a word derived from
suasion.
Example Sentences
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Her plottings are too tortuous to be entirely per suasive.
From Time Magazine Archive
Although AFL-CIO Boss George Meany, now 82, is hardly a per suasive personal advocate of early retirement, Big Labor has quietly opposed the Pepper bill.
From Time Magazine Archive
Meanwhile, Laski's fame as British Socialism's most suasive intellectual polemicist grew steadily.
From Time Magazine Archive
With Thomas, an aspiring soul, in the flush of those discursive hopes and speculations which make ambitious youth restless, Burr employed his usual suasive arts, hopeful of winning a recruit.
From A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett by William Henry Venable
He had the most suasive, genial, and gentlemanly comedy manner conceivable, and was never for a minute away from the footlights.
From The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography by David Christie Murray
