Convince

Definition: Convince

Convince

Verb

1. Make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something; "He had finally convinced several customers of the advantages of his product".

Date "convince" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Note: Convince \Con*vince"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Convinced; present participle verb or noun Convincing.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definition: Convince

Domain	Definition
Tips from 1870	Usage: Convict, Convince. The Irishman who brandished his club and, exclaimed that he was open to conviction, but he would like to see the man that could convince him, used a form of argument that was most convincing, but failed in his discrimination of language. Convict refers to the outer condition, and generally applies to something wrong; convince, which may be used of either right or wrong, refers to the judgment. Source: Slips of Speech.
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Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Belief	Cause to be believed; Verb: satisfy, persuade, have the ear of, gain the confidence of, assure; convince, convict, convert; wean, bring round; bring over, win over; indoctrinate; (teach); cram down the throat; produce conviction, carry conviction; bring home to, drive home to.
Demonstration	Convince, persuade (belief).
Teaching	Direct, guide; direct attention to; (attention); impress upon the mind, impress upon the memory; beat into, beat into the head; convince; (belief).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I find it difficult to convince myself that God would have introduced such a foul being into creation without endowing her with some virtues, hmmm? (Name der Rose, Der; writing credit: Andrew Birkin; Gérard Brach) A man can convince anyone he's somebody else, but never himself. (The Usual Suspects; writing credit: Christopher McQuarrie) This same wonderful, intelligent, clear-sighted girl was able to convince me what kind of a person you really are. (Herbie Rides Again; writing credit: Gordon Buford; Bill Walsh) I'm afraid you're going to have to show more than your birth certificate to convince a man of that. (The Trouble with Harry; writing credit: Jack Trevor Story; John Michael Hayes) Now, I've heard the arguments on both sides, and there is nothing to convince me of the need to brush your teeth. (Aqua Teen Hunger Force; writing credit: Matt Maiellaro; Dave Willis)
Lyrics	I AIN'T GOT TIME TO CONVINCE (Come Back In One Piece; performing artist: Aaliyah) Who has to convince you (Throwing It All Away; performing artist: Genesis) Convince me she's fine. (Cry For Help; performing artist: Rick Astley) If she say you're not, convince her say you're gay (It Wasn't Me; performing artist: Shaggy) How can I convince you what you see is real (The Search is Over; performing artist: Survivor)
Clever	When a person wants to believe something, it doesn't take much to convince them. (references; author: unknown)
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Domain	Title
Books	"We must meet our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies." (reference) Get That Business Loan: Convince Your Banker to Say Yes (reference) Leadership and the Computer/Top Executives Reveal How They Personally Use Computers to Communicate, Coach, Convince and Compete (reference) Like A Virgin: How To Convince Kids to Abstain From Sex (reference) Mental magic : twelve ways to convince people you can read minds (reference) (more book examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Convince yourselves, he cried. Credit: Library of Congress.		How do you propose to convince him?. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Author	Quotation
Author Unknown	Convince a man of what he wants, and he'll move heaven and earth to get it.
Bacon	God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because His ordinary works convince it.
George Washington	Reason, too late perhaps, may convince you of the folly in misspending time.
Irving Layton	When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
Johann Kaspar Lavater	He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.
Samuel Johnson	You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income.
Shannon Fife	The persons hardest to convince that they're at the retirement age are children at bedtime.
Thomas Love Peacock	I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Walt Whitman	We convince by our presence.
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Author	Date	Quotation
Brown v. Board of Education	1954	This discussion and our own investigation convince us that, although these sources cast some light, it is not enough to resolve the problem with which we are faced. (reference)
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Title	Author	Quote
Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	Truly, as I sought to convince him, the shame lay in the commission of the sin, and not in the showing of it forth.
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	Very often the chief ministers themselves are commanded to show their skill, and to convince the Emperor that they have not lost their faculty.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		More rigorous evaluation research is needed if adult day programs are to convince policymakers and consumers that they are an essential component of the LTC continuum. (references)
		Research on steroid educational programs has shown that simply teaching students about steroids' adverse effects does not convince adolescents that they personally can be adversely affected. (references)
Business		Moreover, local distributors can convince their customers to buy new products based on the customers' trust in the company's reputation, and their long-term relationship. (references)
		Financial considerations alone are not sufficient to convince purchasers to adopt new technology or a new type of equipment, nor is a simple statement of a product's merits. (references)
		Companies planning to market products that require regular maintenance or availability of spares should ensure that they can convince the buyer about ready availability of training and after sales service. (references)
Civil Liberties	Iraq	In an apparent effort to convince citizens living abroad to return to the country, government radio announced in June 1999 an amnesty for teachers who left the country illegally after the Gulf War. (references)
	El Salvador	The human rights Ombudswoman declared that the PNC agents had acted appropriately; her staff had been present throughout the day and had participated in the PNC's efforts to convince the demonstrators to disperse. (references)
	Burma	Local authorities already had destroyed 13 of approximately 40 mosques that had been designated for destruction before the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) was able to intervene and convince the Government to halt the activity. (references)
Economic History	Cyprus	The U.S. Embassy in Nicosia and EU diplomatic missions are trying to convince the GOC to abolish this in the near future. (references)
	Poland	Sponsored visits to the U.S. company's headquarters or manufacturing plant frequently helps to convince Polish buyers to purchase a U.S. product. (references)
	Australia	Special briefings and networking events were scheduled during the Olympics to convince foreign businesspeople that Australia warrants their investment monies. (references)
Human Rights	Haiti	According to police officials, the deportees are held in order to prevent an increase in insecurity and to convince them that they would not want to risk committing crime because of prison conditions. (references)
Political Economy	Ecuador	Over the longer run, only sustained economic growth can convince average Ecuadorians that their living standard will improve from economic reform. (references)
Trade	Ukraine	The government of Ukraine has told the international donor community that it, too, opposes the draft tax code, and would work to convince the parliament to revise it. (references)
Women	Nigeria	In addition once a state legislature criminalizes FGM, NGO's have found that they must convince the LGA authorities that state laws are applicable in their districts. (references)
Worker Rights	Mexico	The union and employers were unable to convince indigenous farm workers to leave their families at home, and many settled near work sites in the north. (references)
	Ghana	In April two members of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Unions (ICU) were sentenced to 6 months in jail for "being on a premises for an unlawful purpose." On April 7, 2000, they had entered the grounds of Akosombo Textiles Limited (ATL) to address workers and convince them to leave TEGLU in favor of the ICU. (references)
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Speaker	Phrase(s)
Dennis Miller	You're a zealot if you can't see the blinding irony inherent in using force to convince other people that your belief about the unknowable is more accurate than their belief in the unknowable.
Gerald Ford	That's why I tried so hard to convince the American people that they should have had a different result, and I think a few of them regret.
Rush Limbaugh	Another way of saying this is that while the Left, which is the media in America, tries to convince people I have created a bunch of mind-numbed robots awaiting marching orders from me each day, it is they who actually seek to create just that.
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Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
George Washington	1789-1797	Those measures having proved unsuccessful, it became necessary to convince the refractory of the power of the United States to punish their depredations.
Jimmy Carter	1977-1981	Budgets must be tight enough to convince those who set wages and prices that the Federal Government is serious about fighting inflation but not so tight as to choke off all growth.
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Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	93.75%	1,139	6,721
Lexical Verb (base form)	5.59%	68	40,606
Noun (singular)	0.49%	6	143,867
Noun (proper)	0.16%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	1,215	N/A

Expressions using "convince": convince oneself ♦ convince smb. of smth. ♦ convince smb. that ♦ try to convince. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "convince"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i mbush mendjen (coax, inveigle, persuade, prevail), bind (assure, bring, bring over, expostulate, get, get round, induce, lead, make smb. listen to reason, outrun, persuade, prevail, prevail upon, reassure, remonstrate, rub in). (various references)

Arabic		‏قنع ب. (various references)

Bulgarian		убеждавам (admonish, argue, assure, coax, exhort, induce, lead, persuade, press, prevail, satisfy, talk over, urge, win), накарвам някого да почувствува. (various references)

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

Czech		ubezpeèit (assure, re-assure), přesvìdèit (persuade, satisfy). (various references)

Danish		overtyde (persuade). (various references)

Dutch		overtuigen (persuade). (various references)

Esperanto		konvinki (persuade). (various references)

Faeroese		sannføra (persuade). (various references)

Farsi		متقاعدکردن (Ensure), قانع کردن (Content, Satisfy). (various references)

Finnish		vakuuttaa (assure, insure, persuade, protest). (various references)

French		convaincre. (various references)

German		überzeugen (be convincing, bring over, carry conviction, persuade, satisfy, sell). (various references)

Greek		καταπείθω, πείθω (convince of, determine, persuade, persuasion, suasion, sway, talk into). (various references)

Hebrew		לשכ� ע (explain away, persuade, win over). (various references)

Hungarian		meggyõz (bring round, persuade), bebizonyít (proved, proven, to demonstrate, to make good, to prove). (various references)

Icelandic		sannfæra (persuade). (various references)

Indonesian		meyakinkan (cogent, ensure, persuasive). (various references)

Italian		convincere (argue, convince oneself, get, persuade, prevail, reason, urge on), persuadere (argue, bring, cajole, coax, convince oneself, get, induce, persuade, persuade oneself, win). (various references)

Korean		납�"�시키십시�". (various references)

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	convicta, convictus, convincere, convincitur, persuadere, persuaderi, persuadet, persuasa, persuaserunt, persuasi, persuasio, persuasis, persuasitque, persuaso, persuasum. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression	Frequency per Day
convince	8
convince mess people shouldnt that	6
convince parent	4
convince friend jack off	4
boss convince promotion	3
convince people	3
convince speech	2
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Language	Date	Source	Titus Chapter 1, Verse 9
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Antecomenon tou kata thn didachn pistou logou ina dunatoV h kai parakalein en th didaskalia th ugiainoush kai touV antilegontaV elegcein
Latin	405	Vulgate	Amplectentem eum qui secundum doctrinam est fidelem sermonem ut potens sit et exhortari in doctrina sana et eos qui contradicunt arguere
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	Hooli, contynent, takinge that trewe word, that is aftir doctryn; that he be miyti to amoneste in hoolsum techyng, and to repreue hem that ayenseien.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	And suche as cleveth vnto the true worde of doctryne that he maye be able to exhorte with wholsom learnynge and to improve them that saye agaynst it.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	Keeping to the true word of the teaching, so that he may be able to give comfort by right teaching and overcome the arguments of the doubters.
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Language	Titus Chapter 1, Verse 9
Cebuano	kinahanglan nga mangupot siya pag-ayo sa kasaligang pulong nga ingon sa gikatudlo kaniya, aron makahimo siya sa paghatag ug pagtulon-an sa matarung tuloohan, ug usab sa pagsaway kanila nga nagasupak niini.
Chinese	� � 守所教真實的 �" 理、就能將 �" 正的教 �" 勸化人．又能把爭辯的人駁 �' 了。
Croatian	priljubljen uz vjerodostojnu rijeè nauka da može i hrabriti u zdravom nauku i uvjeravati protivnike.
Danish	en Mand, som holder fast ved det troværdige Ord efter Læren, for at han kan være dygtig til både at formane ved den sunde Lære og at gendrive dem, som sige imod.
Dutch	Die vasthoudt aan het getrouwe woord, dat naar de leer is, opdat hij machtig zij, beide om te vermanen door de gezonde leer, en om de tegensprekers te wederleggen.
Finnish	hänen tulee pysyä kiinni opinmukaisessa, luotettavassa sanassa, että olisi kykenevä sekä neuvomaan terveellä opilla että kumoamaan vastaansanojain väitteet.
French	attaché � la vraie parole telle qu`elle a été enseignée, afin d`être capable d`exhorter selon la saine doctrine et de réfuter les contradicteurs.
German	und haltend ob dem Wort, das gewiß ist, und lehrhaft, auf daß er mächtig sei, zu ermahnen durch die heilsame Lehre und zu strafen die Widersprecher.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Ia harus berpegang teguh pada ajaran yang dapat dipercaya, seperti yang sudah diajarkan kepadanya. Dengan demikian ia sanggup menasihati orang berdasarkan ajaran yang benar, dan menunjukkan kesalahan orang-orang yang menentangnya.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	berpaut kepada perkataan yang sungguh menurut pengajaran itu, supaya dapat ia menasehatkan orang di dalam pengajaran yang benar itu, dan menempelak orang yang melawan.
Italian	attaccato alla dottrina sicura, secondo l'insegnamento trasmesso, perché sia in grado di esortare con la sua sana dottrina e di confutare coloro che contraddicono.
Maori	E u ana te pupuri i te kupu pono i whakaakona atu na, kia taea ai e ia, i te mea ka tika nei tana whakaako, te whakahauhau, te turaki ano i ta te hunga e totohe mai ana.
Norwegian	en som holder fast ved det troverdige ord efter læren, forat han kan være i stand til både å formane ved den sunde lære og å tale til rette dem som sier imot.
Portuguese	retendo firme a palavra fiel, que é conforme a doutrina, para que seja poderoso, tanto para exortar na sã doutrina como para convencer os contradizentes.
Rumanian	sq se yinq de Cuvkntul adevqrat, care este potrivit cu knvqyqtura, pentruca sq fie kn stare sq sfqtuiascq kn knvqyqtura sqnqtoasq, wi sq knfrunte pe protivnici.
Russian	�"ЕТЦБЭЙКУС ЙУФЙООПЗП УМПЧБ, УПЗМБУОПЗП У ХЮЕОЙЕН, ЮФП�'Щ ПО �'ЩМ УЙМЕО Й ОБУФБЧМСФШ Ч Ъ�"ТБЧПН ХЮЕОЙЙ Й � ТПФЙЧСЭЙИУС П�'МЙЮБФШ.
Shuar	Tura Nú arantcha, Chíkich Shuáran pénker jintintrataj tusa tura Yus-Chichaman nakitin ainia nuna nupetkataj tusa, Yúsnumia nekas chichaman, nii Unuimiátramiania Nuyá kanakchatniuiti.
Spanish	que sepa retener la palabra fiel conforme a la doctrina, para que pueda exhortar con sana enseñanza y también refutar a los que se oponen.
Swahili	Ni lazima ashike kikamilifu ujumbe ule wa kuaminika kama unavyofundishwa. Ndivyo atakavyoweza kuwatia wengine moyo kwa mafundisho ya kweli na kuyafichua makosa ya wale wanaoyapinga mafundisho hayo.
Uma	Kana moroho pongkakamu-ra tudui' to tapangala', hewa to oti-mi ratudui' -taka, bona ra'inca mpotudui' tauna tudui' to makono pai' mpo'apui nono-ra, pai' ra'inca wo'o mpokamaro-ra to mposapuaka tudui' -ta.
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Derivations
	Words beginning with "convince": convinced, convincer, convincers, convinces. (additional references)
	Words ending with "convince": reconvince. (additional references)
	Words containing "convince": reconvinced, reconvinces, unconvinced. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Convince" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: confiance, consince, conveince, convience, Convinc, convinece, covince, Jouvence. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "convince" (pronounced kunvi"ns)
4	-v i" n s	evince.
3	-i" n s	mince, prince, Quince, rinse, since, wince.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-c-e-i-n-n-o-v"
	-1 letter: connive.
	-2 letters: conine, novice.
	-3 letters: conic, conin, coven, covin, envoi, nonce, ovine, venin, voice.
	-4 letters: cine, cion, coin, cone, coni, conn, cove, icon, neon, nevi, nice, nine, none, once, oven, vein, vice, vine, vino.
	-5 letters: con, eon, ice, inn, ion, one, vie, voe.
	Words containing the letters "c-c-e-i-n-n-o-v"
	+1 letter: convinced, convincer, convinces.
	+2 letters: conceiving, connective, connivance, convecting, convection, convincers, reconvince.
	+3 letters: conjunctive, connectives, connivances, contrivance, convections, convenience, conveniency, conventicle, noncoercive, reconvinced, reconvinces, unconvinced.
	+4 letters: conjunctivae, conjunctives, connectively, connectivity, contrivances, convalescing, convectional, conveniences, conventicler, conventicles, conveyancing, inconclusive, reconceiving, reconvicting, reconviction, reconvincing.
	+5 letters: circumvention, concentrative, conduciveness, conjunctively, conservancies, conveniencies, conventiclers, convergencies, conversancies, conveyancings, inconceivable, inconceivably, inconsecutive, inconvenience, inconveniency, inconvincible, misconceiving, nonconductive, preconceiving, preconviction, reconvictions, revaccination, unconceivable.
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Convince

Definition: Convince

Convince

Verb

Specialty Definition: Convince

Synonyms: Convince

Synonyms within Context: Convince

Belief

Demonstration

Teaching

Crosswords: Convince

Modern Usage: Convince

Screenplays

Lyrics

Clever

Commercial Usage: Convince

Books

Photo Album: Convince

Familiar Quotations: Convince

Author Unknown

Bacon

George Washington

Irving Layton

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Samuel Johnson

Shannon Fife

Thomas Love Peacock

Walt Whitman

Historic Usage: Convince

Brown v. Board of Education

Use in Literature: Convince

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

Non-Fiction Usage: Convince

Spoken Usage: Convince

Dennis Miller

Gerald Ford

Rush Limbaugh

Speeches: Convince

George Washington

Jimmy Carter

Usage Frequency: Convince

Expressions: Convince

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Convince

Modern Translation: Convince

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