Definition of Persuade

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Persuade

To influence or gain over by argument, advice, entreaty, expostulation, etc.; to draw or incline to a determination by presenting sufficient motives.

To try to influence.

To convince by argument, or by reasons offered or suggested from reflection, etc.; to cause to believe.

To inculcate by argument or expostulation; to advise; to recommend.

To use persuasion; to plead; to prevail by persuasion.

Persuasion.

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Persuade Quotations

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
Thomas Jefferson

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Winston Churchill

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
Abraham Lincoln

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
Charles Darwin

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
Robert A. Heinlein

I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular.
David Ogilvy

I don't persuade to suicide.
Jack Kevorkian

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
Calvin Trillin

Persuade Translations

persuade in Danish is overtyde, overtale
persuade in Dutch is overtuigen
persuade in Finnish is suostuttaa, vakuuttaa
persuade in French is persuadez, persuadent, convaincre, persuader
persuade in Italian is persuadere, persuadere
persuade in Latin is adduco
persuade in Portuguese is persuada
persuade in Spanish is persuadir

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