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Word Meanings - CONVINCINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

in a convincing manner; in a manner to compel assent.

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  • 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.

 

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