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convinceable en · ADJ

Etymology

From convince + -able.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative, rare) Alternative form of convincible.
   alt of convincible
   • The convinceable young man stands in the same relationship to the vicar as the convinceable reader of the Emile to Rousseau. 1969, Robert J. Ellrich, Rousseau and his reader: the rhetorical situation of the major works:
   • I would suspect that those who are not at all convinced by it have distinct prejudices of their own and are not too convinceable! 2010, Albert Ellis, All Out!: An Autobiography, page 469:
   • But in truth, reason, in little-thinking and much-acting men, who pass pretty frequently from a youth of utter instability to a maturity of set stiffness, is by no means the ever-living, and therefore ever-open and convinceable thing we seem to think. 1876, John Grote, A Treatise on the Moral Ideals, page 483:
   • It may be thought that able ought to be changed into ible, especially after g and c soft: as convincible, tangible, &c.; but it seems better to preserve uniformity by writing convinceable, tangeable, or touchable. 1848 October 7, “Mr. Gilchrist's Orthographical Reform”, in The Monthly Magazine, volume 38, part 2, page 216:

Forms

Deriveds

unconvinceable