persuasively


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per·sua·sive

 (pər-swā′sĭv, -zĭv)
adj.
Tending or having the power to persuade: a persuasive argument.

per·sua′sive·ly adv.
per·sua′sive·ness n.
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Adv.1.persuasively - in a persuasive manner; "this essay argues so persuasively..."
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Translations
بصورَة مُقْنِعَه
přesvědčivě
á sannfærandi hátt
presvedčivo
ikna edici/inandırıcı bir şekilde

persuasively

[pəˈsweɪsɪvlɪ] ADVde modo persuasivo
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

persuasively

[pərˈsweɪsɪvli] adv [argue] → avec persuasion
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

persuasively

adv argue etcüberzeugend; …, he said persuasively…, versuchte er sie/ihn etc zu überreden
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

persuasively

[pəˈsweɪsɪvlɪ] advin modo persuasivo
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

persuade

(pəˈsweid) verb
1. to make (someone) (not) do something, by arguing with him or advising him. We persuaded him (not) to go.
2. to make (someone) certain (that something is the case); to convince. We eventually persuaded him that we were serious.
perˈsuasion (-ʒən) noun
the act of persuading. He gave in to our persuasion and did what we wanted him to do.
perˈsuasive (-siv) adjective
able to persuade. He is a persuasive speaker; His arguments are persuasive.
perˈsuasively adverb
perˈsuasiveness noun
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References in classic literature ?
"You see," she said, "you do not give him a fair chance; he cannot use all his power with his head held back as it is with that check-rein; if you would take it off I am sure he would do better -- do try it," she said persuasively, "I should be very glad if you would."
Shimerda finally saying persuasively that she would send Mrs.
"Shall we not waken him?" repeated the lady persuasively.
Capoul's impassioned wooing, and affected a guileless incomprehension of his designs whenever, by word or glance, he persuasively indicated the ground floor window of the neat brick villa projecting obliquely from the right wing.
"Let me call some one else, sir," said Mary, persuasively. She did not like her position--alone with the old man, who seemed to show a strange flaring of nervous energy which enabled him to speak again and again without falling into his usual cough; yet she desired not to push unnecessarily the contradiction which agitated him.
The women will make up beds for you,' said the old woman persuasively.
'I am not certain of that,' rejoined Doyce, laying his hand persuasively on his shoulder.
Namgay Doola grinned so persuasively and began to tell me about a big brown bear in a poppy field by the river.
"Nay, nay, I think not of it now; but this strange man amuses me; and if he 'hath music in his soul', let us not churlishly reject his company." She pointed persuasively along the path with her riding whip, while their eyes met in a look which the young man lingered a moment to prolong; then, yielding to her gentle influence, he clapped his spurs into his charger, and in a few bounds was again at the side of Cora.
Come, now do tell her,--do!" and she laid her hands persuasively on Rachel's arm.
Weston kindly and persuasively, "I certainly do feel tempted to give.
Come, Pip," said Joe, persuasively, "if there warn't no weal-cutlets, at least there was dogs?"