suasion
noun
the act of advising, urging, or attempting to persuade; persuasion.
suasiveness
-
a word derived from
suasion.
Example Sentences
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In speaking of it, he was urgent enough, but his words had not that sort of suasiveness which they would have possessed had he been addressing himself to Clary Underwood.
From Ralph the Heir by Anthony Trollope
