Word Meanings - CONVINCINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
in a convincing manner; in a manner to compel assent.
Related words: (words related to CONVINCINGLY)
- CONVINCIBLE
1. Capable of being convinced or won over. 2. Capable of being confuted and disproved by argument; refutable. Sir T. Browne. - ASSENTATORY
Flattering; obsequious. -- As*sent"a*to*ri*ly, adv. - ASSENTER
One who assents. - CONVINCER
One who, or that which, convinces; one who wins over by proof. - ASSENTMENT
Assent; agreement. - COMPELLATION
Style of address or salutation; an appellation. "Metaphorical compellations." Milton. He useth this endearing compellation, "My little children." Bp. Beveridge. The peculiar compellation of the kings in France is by "Sire," which is nothing else - MANNERIST
One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism. - MANNERISM
Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural - ASSENTATOR
An obsequious; a flatterer. - COMPELLABLE
Capable of being compelled or constrained. Blackstone. - ASSENTING
Giving or implying assent. -- As*sent"ing*ly, adv. - COMPELLER
One who compels or constrains. - ASSENTIVE
Giving assent; of the nature of assent; complying. -- As*sent"ive*ness, n. - COMPELLATIVE
The name by which a person is addressed; an appellative. - ASSENTATION
Insincere, flattering, or obsequious assent; hypocritical or pretended concurrence. Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. Ld. Chesterfield. - COMPEL
1. To drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to force; to constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical or moral force. Wolsey . . . compelled the people to pay up the whole subsidy at once. Hallam. And they compel one Simon . . - ASSENTIENT
Assenting. - CONVINCINGNESS
The power of convincing, or the quality of being convincing. - COMPELLABLY
By compulsion. - CONVINCE
1. To overpower; to overcome; to subdue or master. His two chamberlains Will I with wine and wassail so convince That memory, the warder of the brain, Shall be a fume. Shak. 2. To overcome by argument; to force to yield assent to truth; to satisfy - UNMANNERLY
Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv. - INCONVINCIBLY
In a manner not admitting of being convinced. - DISASSENT
To dissent. - CLOUD-COMPELLER
Cloud-gatherer; -- an epithet applied to Zeus. Pope. - DISASSENTER
One who disassents; a dissenter. State Trials . - OVERMANNER
In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.