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Suasion   /swˈeɪʒən/   Listen
Suasion

noun
1.
The act of persuading (or attempting to persuade); communication intended to induce belief or action.  Synonym: persuasion.






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"Suasion" Quotes from Famous Books



... gossip's, bridle. This is a rare curiosity, which is kept in the vestry. It would seem, from all that can be learned, that two hundred years ago there were in England viragoes so virulent, women so gifted with gab and so loaded and primed with the devil's own gunpowder, that all moral suasion was wasted on them, and simply showed, as old Reisersberg wrote, that fatue agit qui ignem conatur extinguere sulphure ('t is all nonsense to try to quench fire with brimstone). For such diavolas they had made—what the sexton is just going ...
— The Gypsies • Charles G. Leland



Words linked to "Suasion" :   bell ringing, canvassing, prompting, line, weapon, proselytism, incitement, arm-twisting, sloganeering, suggestion, dissuasion, communication, electioneering, exhortation, communicating, artillery



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