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overpersuade en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˌəʊvəpəˈsweɪd/ (UK)

Etymology

From over- + persuade.

Meanings

1. To win someone over through persuasion; to convince (someone) to do something against their own judgement or wishes.
   • Opportunitie casting him into the company of foure French Gallants well attended [...]; over-perswaded him to goe with them into France, to the Dutchesse of Mercury, from whom they should not only have meanes, but also Letter of favour to her noble Duke [...]. 1630, John Smith, True Travels, Kupperman, published 1988, page 36:
   • And I let him overpersuade me. He was right, really. 1924 April, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not … […] (Parade’s End; 1), 2nd edition, London: Duckworth and Company […], published June 1924, →OCLC:
   • […] Persius has given us a very humorous account of a young fellow who was roused out of his bed in order to be sent on a long voyage, by Avarice, and afterwards overpersuaded and kept at home by Luxury. 1711 May 13 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “WEDNESDAY, May 3, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 55; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, page 345:

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