Definition of Suasiveness

1. Noun. (rare) The act of urging or influencing; persuasion. ¹

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Definition of Suasiveness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Suasiveness

stœchiometry
sua sponte
suabilities
suability
suable
suably
suage
suaku
suanite
suant
suasible
suasion
suasions
suasive
suasively
suasiveness (current term)
suasivenesses
suasory
suave
suavely
suaveness
suavenesses
suaver
suaves
suavest
suavified
suavifies
suavify
suavifying
suaviloquent

Literary usage of Suasiveness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by American Committee of Revision (1881)
"... no one may delude you with per- 5 suasiveness of speech. For though I am absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your ..."

2. The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler (1899)
"We have all felt the brazenness of words without emotion, the hollowness, the unaccountable unper- suasiveness, of eloquence behind which lies no Love. ..."

3. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1902)
"Two main views hold the field: one, which has found most favour in America, and is due chiefly to the labours and per- suasiveness of Professors Cope, FIG. ..."

4. Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln by Abraham Lincoln, Daniel Fish (1905)
"suasiveness of speech, which is characteristic of his later and more celebrated utterances. In his gathered writings and addresses we find, indeed, ..."

5. The Fortnightly Review (1865)
"... unobtrusively upon the mind, and allows the thought to expand quietly like an opening flower. But the very suasiveness of harmonious writing needs ..."

6. Introduction to the Study of the Gospels by Brooke Foss Westcott (1882)
"suasiveness of His teaching; the growing consciousness of sin, the efficiency of His priestly intercession. In the Captivity. r .' . J ' * . r ? ..."

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