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suasive
suasive, a. and n. (ˈsweɪsɪv) Also 7 swasive. [ad. L. *suāsīvus, f. suās-: see suasible; cf. obs. F. suasif, It., Sp. suasivo.] A. adj. Having or exercizing the power of persuading or urging; consisting in or tending to suasion; occas. const. of, exhorting or urging to.1601 Weever Mirr. Mart. A 3 b,...
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Burnt Norton
Bergonzi emphasised the "beautifully controlled and suasive opening" and claimed that "It contains some of Eliot's finest poetry, a true musicalization
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swasivious
† swaˈsivious, a. Obs. rare—1. [f. It. suasivo suasive + -ious.] Agreeably persuasive.1592 R. D. Hypnerotomachia 39 b, With pleasurable actions, maydenly iestures, swasiuious behauiours.
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Yang Xiong (author)
Yang attempted to return the fu genre to a focus of "suasive admonition" (fèng 諷), which he believed was the original purpose of the earliest fu-type writings
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suasory
suasory, a. and n. Now rare. (ˈsweɪsərɪ) Also 7 swas-. [ad. L. suāsōri-us, f. suās-, ppl. stem: see suasible and -ory. Cf. obs. F. suasoire.] A. adj. Tending to persuade; persuasive.1576 Fleming Panopl. Epist. A j, Of Epistles, some be demonstratiue, some suasorie. 1645 E. Pagitt Heresiogr. (1647) 1...
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unpersuasive
unperˈsuasive, a. (un-1 7.)1748 Richardson Clarissa (1811) V. 207, I traversed the room, and bit my unpersuasive lips..for vexation. 1783 Blair Lect. II. 122 That argumentative manner, bordering on the dry and unpersuasive, which is..the character of English Sermons. 1847 F. W. Newman Hist. Hebrew M...
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Rhetoric of science
Scientific Giants: The important works that investigate the suasive powers of exemplars in science include those of Alan G. In this instance, Toulmin echoes Feyerabend, who in his preoccupation with suasive processes, makes clear the adaptive nature of persuasion.
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suasively
ˈsuasively, adv. [f. prec. + -ly2.] In a suasive manner; so as to persuade.1837 Carlyle Fr. Rev. i. iii. ii, Let a true tale, of his Majesty's..wretched pecuniary impossibilities, be suasively told them. 1871 Hardy Desperate Remedies xi, ‘You must remember’, she added, more suasively, ‘that Miss Gra...
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Realism (arts)
Anton Chekov, for instance, used camera works to reproduce an uninflected slice of life, exposing the rhetorical and suasive character of realistic theatricality
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assuasive
assuasive, a. and n. ? Obs. (əˈsweɪsɪv) [f. as- prefix1 + -suasive, as in persuasive (cf. assuade); but confused in sense with assuage.] A. adj. Soothingly persuasive; soothing.1708 Pope St. Cecilia 25 Music her soft assuasive voice applies. a 1762 Lady Montague Poems (1785) 63 There blend your care...
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eloquence
eloquence (ˈɛləkwəns) Forms: 5 eloquens, elloquence, 4– eloquence. [a. Fr. éloquence, ad. L. ēloquentia, f. ēloquent-em eloquent.] 1. The action, practice, or art of expressing thought with fluency, force, and appropriateness, so as to appeal to the reason or move the feelings. Also concr. eloquent ...
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