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Thompson Chain Reference
• Persuasion, Spiritual
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Charles Buck Dictionary
• Persuasion
King James Dictionary
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• Persuasible
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Persuasive, Persuasivness
• Persuasion
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• Persuade; Persuasion
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• ܡܦ݁ܺܝܣܳܢܽܘܬ݂ܳܐ
• ܦ݁ܝܳܣܳܐ
• πειθός , πειθώ , πιθός
• πεισμονή
• πιθανολογία
• לֶקַח

The act of influencing the judgment and passions by arguments or motives. It is different from conviction. Conviction affects the understanding only; persuasion the will and the practice. It is more extensively used than conviction, which last is founded on demonstration natural or supernatural. But all things of which we may be persuaded, are not capable of demonstration.

See Blair's Rhetoric, vol. 2: p. 174.