† disperˈsuasion Obs. nonce-wd.
[dis- 9.]
Want of persuasion or feeling of certainty.
| 1648 Sanderson Serm. (1653) 23 Many a good soul..could never yet..be so well persuaded of the sincerity of his own repentance..as to think that God would..accept it. The censure were very hard..to call such his dis-perswasion by the name of despair. |