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Definition of Perswaded
1. perswade [v] - See also: perswade
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perswaded
Literary usage of Perswaded
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1850)
"... as soon as he was at Sea, those gentlemen would have perswaded the King to
haue gon to rights for Brest, but the King did not think fit to do that, ..."
2. Bradford's History "of Plimoth Plantation.": From the Original Manuscript by William Bradford, Massachusetts General Court, Massachusetts Office of the Secretary of State (1899)
"... New-England might yet have been scarce knowne, I am perswaded, not so
replenished & inhabited with honest English people, as it now is. ..."
3. Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year by New-York Historical Society (1877)
"eral importance, that I am perswaded it will draw your Lordships immediate attention.
I flatter myself that your Lordships will excuse my writing thus ..."
4. A Select Collection of Old Plays: In Twelve Volumes by Robert Dodsley, Isaac Reed, Octavius Gilchrist, John Payne Collier (1825)
"THE Second Part of the Honest Whore, with the Humors of the Patient Man, the
Impatient Wife : the Honest Whore, perswaded by strong Arguments to turne ..."
5. The anatomy of melancholy, by Democritus iunior by Robert Burton (1827)
"A gentleman in Ly- mosen (saith Anthony Verdeur), was perswaded he had but one legg:
... perswaded ..."
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