persuasive

Etymology

From Middle French persuasif, from Medieval Latin persuāsīvus, from Latin past participle stem of persuādēre + -īvus.

adj

  1. Able to persuade; convincing.
    But I'm pretty persuasive, and I've learned how elected officials think. I know how to press their buttons. December 2 2020, Andy Byford talks to Paul Clifton, “I enjoy really big challenges...”, in Rail, page 55

noun

  1. That which persuades; incitement.
    He smiled a very knowing smile, and setting up a halloo, and shaking his leathern thong, away we went at the rate of seven or eight miles an hour. I had no occasion to go further with my persuasives; the pace was kept up, […] 1839, George Robert Gleig, Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary: Visited in 1837, volume 1, page 68

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