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persuade

See also: persuadé

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Etymology edit

From Latin persuādeō (“I persuade”). Cognate to for, sweet.

Pronunciation edit

  • (UK) IPA(key): /pəˈsweɪd/
  • (US) IPA(key): /pɚˈsweɪd/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪd
  • Hyphenation: per‧suade

Verb edit

persuade (third-person singular simple present persuades, present participle persuading, simple past and past participle persuaded)

  1. (transitive) To successfully convince (someone) to agree to, accept, or do something, usually through reasoning and verbal influence. [from 15th c.]
    Synonym: convince
    Antonyms: deter, dissuade
    Hypernym: change someone's mind
    That salesman was able to persuade me into buying this bottle of lotion.
    • 1577, Socrates Scholasticus [i.e., Socrates of Constantinople], “Constantinus the Emperour Summoneth the Nicene Councell, it was Held at Nicæa a Citie of Bythnia for the Debatinge of the Controuersie about the Feast of Easter, and the Rootinge out of the Heresie of Arius”, in Eusebius Pamphilus, Socrates Scholasticus, Evagrius Scholasticus, Dorotheus, translated by Meredith Hanmer, The Avncient Ecclesiasticall Histories of the First Six Hundred Yeares after Christ, Wrytten in the Greeke Tongue by Three Learned Historiographers, Eusebius, Socrates, and Euagrius. [...], book I (The First Booke of the Ecclesiasticall Historye of Socrates Scholasticvs), imprinted at London: By Thomas Vautroullier dwelling in the Blackefriers by Ludgate, →OCLC, page 225:
      [VV]e are able with playne demonſtration to proue, and vvith reaſon to perſvvade that in tymes paſt our fayth vvas alike, that then vve preached thinges correſpondent vnto the forme of faith already published of vs, ſo that none in this behalfe can repyne or gaynesay vs.
    • c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
      We will persuade him, be it possible.
    • 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter I, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC:
      The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits. He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. Nobody would miss them, he explained.
    • 2011 November 10, Jeremy Wilson, “England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report”, in Telegraph:
      The most persistent tormentor was Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, who scored a hat-trick in last month’s corresponding fixture in Iceland. His ability to run at defences is instantly striking, but it is his clever use of possession that has persuaded some shrewd judges that he is an even better prospect than Theo Walcott.
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To convince of by argument, or by reasons offered or suggested from reflection, etc.; to cause to believe (something). [15th–18th c.]
  3. (transitive, now rare, regional) To urge, plead; to try to convince (someone to do something). [from 16th c.]

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persuade

  1. inflection of persuader:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Italian edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /per.suˈa.de/, /perˈswa.de/[1]
  • Rhymes: -ade
  • Hyphenation: per‧su‧à‧de, per‧suà‧de

Verb edit

persuade

  1. third-person singular present indicative of persuadere

References edit

  1. ^ persuado in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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persuādē

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of persuādeō

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persuade

  1. inflection of persuadir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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persuade

  1. inflection of persuadir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative
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