persuadable, a.
(pəˈsweɪdəb(ə)l)
Also 6 -yble.
[f. persuade v. + -able; but in earlier form ad. L. type *persuādibilis, f. persuādēre.]
† 1. Having the quality of persuading, persuasive: = persuasible 1. Obs.
| c 1530 L. Cox Rhet. (1899) 41 The ryght pleasaunt and parsuadyble arte of Rhetoryke. |
2. Of a person: Capable of being persuaded; easy to persuade:
= persuasible 2.
| 1598 Florio, Suasibile, perswadable, that may be perswaded. 1679 J. Goodman Penit. Pard. iii. iii. (1713) 310 He requires a perswadable, counsellable temper. 1788 C. Reeve Exiles III. 89, I was rejoiced to find him so rational and persuadable. 1877 Mrs. Oliphant Makers Flor. x. 252 They had no easy or persuadable ruler in their new Prior. |
† 3. Of a thing: That may be recommended to acceptance:
= persuasible 3.
Obs. rare.
| 1617 Collins Def. Bp. Ely ii. vii. 275 You confesse your selfe that it is persuadeable, but by inducements, namely what others haue obserued, found, and experienced. |
Hence
persuadaˈbility (
-iˈbility),
perˈsuadableness;
perˈsuadably adv.| 1797 Southey Let. to J. May 26 June in Life (1849) I. 317 There was a time when I believed in the *persuadibility of man, and had the mania of man-mending. 1871 Persuadability [see persuasibility, quot. 1860]. 1889 J. M. Robertson Ess. Crit. Method 71 The impulse to the struggle is the notion of persuadibility. |
| 1742 Richardson Pamela IV. 277 From what you intimate of Mr. H.'s Good Humour, and his *Persuadableness, if I may so say. 1889 Blackw. Mag. Apr. 569 Extraordinary candour and persuadableness. |
| 1611 Cotgr., Persuasiblement, *persuadeably. 1632 in Sherwood. [Hence 1818 in Todd, and in Mod. Dicts.] |