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moral suasion en · NOUN

Meanings

1. Persuasion brought to bear by appeals to someone's moral sense or ethics.
   • The temperance movement also exacerbated ethnic tensions. Before 1850 this movement had been primarily one of self-denial and moral suasion aimed at persuading the Protestant middle and working classes to cast out demon rum and become sober, hard-working, upward-striving citizens. 1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry for Freedom, Oxford, published 2003, page 133:

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jawboning

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persuasion