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Definition of Suasion
1. Noun. The act of persuading (or attempting to persuade); communication intended to induce belief or action.
Generic synonyms: Communicating, Communication
Specialized synonyms: Line, Arm-twisting, Bell Ringing, Canvassing, Electioneering, Exhortation, Incitement, Proselytism, Sloganeering, Prompting, Suggestion, Artillery, Weapon
Antonyms: Dissuasion
Derivative terms: Persuade
Definition of Suasion
1. n. The act of persuading; persuasion; as, moral suasion.
Definition of Suasion
1. Noun. The act of urging or influencing; persuasion. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Suasion
1. persuasion [n -S] : SUASIVE, SUASORY [adj] - See also: persuasion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Suasion
Literary usage of Suasion
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essays on the Progress of Nations in Civilization, Productive Industry by Ezra Champion Seaman (1868)
"Moral suasion and Ecclesiastical Government. Religious associations and organizations
should be entirely separate and distinct from the civil government of ..."
2. The Temperance Reformation: Its History, from the Organization of the First by Lebbeus Armstrong (1853)
"suasion, in onc Neighborhood, by the Reformation of some Hard Drinkers and ...
PROVIDENTIAL MORAL suasion. IN one of the counties of the State of New York ..."
3. The Elementary Laws of Advertising and how to Use Them by Henry Stanhope Bunting (1913)
"Chapter VI suasion At the bottom of all competition in trade lies the ... The tool
of trade-getting we use to accomplish these two purposes is — suasion. ..."
4. Bacchus Dethroned: Prize Essay by Frederick Powell (1878)
"We therefore require Moral suasion to educate the people as to the nature of these
... In truth, moral suasion is palpably insufficient to stay this plague. ..."
5. Bacchus Dethroned: Prize Essay by Frederick Powell (1874)
"We therefore require Moral suasion to educate the people as to the nature of these
... In truth, moral suasion is palpably insufficient to stay this plague. ..."
6. Law and Government: The Origin, Nature, Extent, and Necessity of Divine and by Harmon Kingsbury (1849)
"Moral suasion. IF the term Moral suasion mean that process of influencing the
mind and conduct in favor of virtue, which consists in the exhibition of truth ..."
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