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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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
Her plottings are too tortuous to be entirely per suasive.
From Time Magazine Archive
Meanwhile, Laski's fame as British Socialism's most suasive intellectual polemicist grew steadily.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ministers of religion as well as physicians have always wielded with authority the suasive power.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
So spoke the great advocate with suasive eloquence—with eloquence dangerously suasive as regarded his own happiness.
From The Bertrams by Anthony Trollope
