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Another word for persuasion

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Noun

  1. Something believed or accepted as true by a person

    See also:

    opinion

  2. A system of religious belief

    See also:

    religion

  3. Those who accept and practice a particular religious belief

    See also:

    religion

  4. A class that is defined by the common attribute or attributes possessed by all its members

    See also:

    group

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Another word for persuasion

Noun

  1. The act of persuading

    Antonyms:

  2. A belief

    See also:

    opinion

    opinion

    faith

    belief

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Sentence Examples

  • Conversion is to be effected by persuasion, not by the sword.

  • The "Burlingame Treaty" recognizes China's right of eminent domain over all her territory, gives China the right to appoint at ports in the United States consuls, "who shall enjoy the same privileges and immunities as those enjoyed by the consuls of Great Britain and Russia"; provides that "citizens of the United States in China of every religious persuasion and Chinese subjects in the United States shall enjoy entire liberty of conscience and shall be exempt from all disability or persecution on account of their religious faith or worship in either country"; and grants certain privileges to citizens of either country residing in the other, the privilege of naturalization, however, being specifically withheld.

  • The instruction and persuasion which St Bernard favoured found little imitation.

  • The world is happiest when this process is one of persuasion, goodwill, reason, logic, and negotiation.

  • Moreover, the arguments by which Heraclitus supported this theory of the universal flux are employed by Protagoras to undermine the possibility of objective truth, by dissolving all knowledge into the momentary sensation or persuasion of the individual.

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