The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overpersuade \O`ver*per*suade"\, v. t.
To persuade or influence against one's inclination or
judgment.
--Pope.
Wiktionary
vb. To win someone over through persuasion; to convince (someone) to do something against their own judgement or wishes. (from 17th c.)
Usage examples of "overpersuade".
I fear I was weak, and let him overpersuade me to accompany him to one of his haunts.
Valancourt never was a favourite with me, and I was overpersuaded, or I should not have given my consent to the connection.
She knew that for some better reason than that he was overpersuaded by Pappoose, Mr.
In being overpersuaded and marrying you I was untrue to him and his memory, and now you make it worse by opposing a simple little ordinance that is due every person on earth, high or low.
You remember Blore slashed out at the handsome busboy who had overpersuaded Mrs.
Northumberland is overpersuaded by his womenfolk and turns to caution again.
Hank doubtless felt that he had in a sense helped his old pal to death by overpersuading him.
Chesnut overpersuaded the Judge, and those two turned the tide, at least with the South Carolina delegation.
They were loth to let him go, and he might have been overpersuaded to stay but for Jamie, who had spent the evening making up for lost ground and achieved the full cycle, as Culter mounted his horse, by descending the stairs in one airborne step.
Then of a sudden it came to him like a flash that were he to proclaim a great shooting match and offer some grand prize, Robin Hood might be overpersuaded by his spirit to come to the butts.
Nor had he done it now, had not the younger sportsman, who was excessively eager to pursue the flying game, overpersuaded him.