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PERSUA'SION, n. s as z. L. persuasio.

1. The act of persuading the act of influencing the mind by arguments or reasons offered, or by any thing that moves the mind or passions, or inclines the will to a determination.

For thou hast all the arts of fine persuasion.

2. The state of being persuaded or convinced settled opinion or conviction proceeding from arguments and reasons offered by others, or suggested by one's own reflections.

When we have no other certainty of being in the right, but our own persuasion that we are so--

3. A creed or belief or a sect or party adhering to a creed or system of opinions as men of the same persuasion all persuasions concur in the measure.
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Entry for 'Persuasion'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​p/persuasion.html.
 
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