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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

suasive en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˈsweɪzɪv/
  • /ˈsweɪsɪv/

Meanings

  1. (archaic, pronunciation-spelling) Having power to persuade; persuasive.
    • genial and suasive satire 1871, John Earle, The Philology of the English Tongue:
    • It had the passions in perfect subjection; and though its command over them was but suasive and political, yet it had the force of coaction, and despotical. 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:

Forms

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more suasive Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most suasive Degree=Sup lexicographic

Deriveds

suasiveness · suasively