PERSUADING

Definition: PERSUADING

PERSUADING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Persuade

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "PERSUADING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Crosswords: PERSUADING

Persuading Papa (1910)

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Books

• Getting It: Persuading Organizations and Individuals to Be More Comfortable With People With Disabilities (reference)

• Persuading Annie (reference)

• Persuading Aristotle: The Timeless Art of Persuasion in Business, Negotiation and the Media (reference)

• Persuading on Paper (reference)

• Persuading on Paper: The Complete Guide to Writing Copy That Pulls in Business (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Persuading (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

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Skilfully persuading him at last that a home paper was more suited to his needs.Credit: Library of Congress.

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Why, in such a constitution as this, the dissolution of the government in these cases is to be imputed to the prince, is evident; because he, having the force, treasure and offices of the state to employ, and often persuading himself, or being flattered by others, that as supreme magistrate he is uncapable of controul; he alone is in a condition to make great advances toward such changes, under pretence of lawful authority, and has it in his hands to terrify or suppress opposers, as factious, seditious, and enemies to the government: whereas no other part of the legislative, or people, is capable by themselves to attempt any alteration of the legislative, without open and visible rebellion, apt enough to be taken notice of, which, when it prevails, produces effects very little different from foreign conquest. (Second Treatise of Government)

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We had had a great deal of trouble in persuading him to sit at all.

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Business

So while some customers are willing to buy high-end products because of their superior quality, reliability and energy saving characteristics, other customers will need persuading. (references)

So while in general Thai customers are more than willing to buy high-end products because of their superior quality, reliability and energy saving characteristics, most customers will need persuading. (references)

Energy savings can be achieved by persuading people to use private cars less and to use public transportation more. Over the years, the LTA has introduced numerous measures to limit vehicle ownership and discourage usage. (references)

Civil Liberties

Uzbekistan

It provided for punishments for activities such as organizing a banned religious group, persuading others to join such a group, and drawing minors into a religious organization without the permission of their parents. (references)

Economic History

Guatemala

It had some success in consolidating civilian control over the army, replacing a number of senior officers and persuading the military to participate in peace talks with the URNG. (references)

Human Rights

Korea

Reports indicate that defense lawyers are not considered representatives of the accused; rather, they are expected to help the court by persuading the accused to confess guilt. (references)

Worker Rights

Mexico

The union has had some limited success in negotiating with employers to finance education in Spanish and indigenous languages near work sites and in obtaining social security child care centers, but it has had difficulty in persuading member families not to bring their children into the fields. (references)

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Persuading

Ending with "PERSUADING": over-persuading.

Chinese 

说服 (Convince, Convinced, Convincing, Persuade, Persuaded, Persuasion). (various references)

French

persuadant. (various references)

German

einredend, überredend (persuasive, suasive, suasively). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

醇化 (elimination of non-essential elements, persuading by heavy-handed methods). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

じゅんか (acclimate, acclimation, elimination of non-essential elements, persuading by heavy-handed methods, purification). (various references)

Korean 

설득. (various references)

Pig Latin

ersuadingpay

Russian 

убеждать убеждающий. (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words ending with "PERSUADING": overpersuading. (additional references)

Misspellings

"PERSUADING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pursuading. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: respading, spreading.

-2 letters: denarius, deraigns, gradines, pagurids, perusing, readings, speargun, spearing, sprained, springed, supering, undrapes, unpaired, unraised, unrepaid, upgrades, upraised, uranides.

-3 letters: aspired, asunder, audings, augends, dangers, danseur, darings, deraign, despair, desugar, diapers, dingers, draping, dungier, durians, earings, engirds, erasing, gainers, ganders, gardens, gaudier, gaudies, gerunds, gradine, gradins, grained, grasped, guiders, guineas, guisard.

+1 letter: superadding.

+2 letters: outspreading.

+4 letters: overpersuading, superabounding, superhardening, underpaintings.

+5 letters: pseudepigraphon.

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