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Definition of Persuasions
1. persuasion [n] - See also: persuasion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Persuasions
Literary usage of Persuasions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Light of Nature Pursued by Abraham Tucker, Henry Paulet St. John Mildmay (1831)
"Fallacious persuasions may and do often satisfy the mind for the present, but as
often disturb it, and at best must some time or other end in ..."
2. The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress of the Christian People by William Sewel (1844)
"'But to limit religious books to a license, where the tolerated persuasions are
many, they conceive, seems altogether unsafe to all, but that whose opinion ..."
3. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor: With a Life of the Author by Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber (1822)
"That particular Men may communicate with Churches of different persuasions ; and
how far they may do it. 1. As for the duty of particular men in the ..."
4. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1876)
"terrifies their souls, representing some dismal object to their minds, which now
by no means, no labour, no persuasions, they can avoid, ..."
5. The Works of John Owen by John Owen (1826)
"Several persuasions hereabouts, and endeavours of men to that end. Their issues.
IT is the manner of men of all persuasions, who undertake to treat of ..."
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