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persuade
To successfully convince (someone) to agree to, accept, or do something, usually through reasoning and verbal influence.
📑 Synonyms:
convince
💬 Quotations
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.
(obsolete) To convince of by argument, or by reasons offered or suggested from reflection, etc.; to cause to believe (something).
💬 Quotations
But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
(now rare, regional) To urge, plead; to try to convince (someone to do something).
💬 Quotations
Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will deliver us.