Definition of Suasory

1. a. Tending to persuade; suasive.

Definition of Suasory

1. Adjective. (obsolete) Tending to persuade; persuasive ¹

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Definition of Suasory

1. suasion [adj] - See also: suasion

Lexicographical Neighbors of Suasory

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

Literary usage of Suasory

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

1. Grotius on the Rights of War and Peace: An Abriged Translation by Hugo Grotius, William Whewell (1853)
"I. Justificatory and suasory causes. IL Wars with neither are sa- vage. III. ... that some are justificatory or justifying, some suasory or impelling. ..."

2. A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language by John Walker (1819)
"6', in the adjectives ending in scry, is always sharp and hissing, as suasory, ... is sharp and hissing, as dispensary, adversary, suasory, pei unitary, ..."

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