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Persuasively

Persuasive \Per*sua"sive\, n. That which persuades; an inducement; an incitement; an exhortation. -- Per*sua"sive*ly, adv. -- Per*sua"sive*ness, n.

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persuasively

adv. In a manner intended to convince or persuade.

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persuasively

adv. in a persuasive manner; "this essay argues so persuasively..."

Usage examples of "persuasively".

I recalled my promises of reform and preached to myself persuasively, upbraidingly, exhaustively.

He also showed one of the posters to the Forano stationmaster and spoke persuasively enough that the man immediately sat down to his telegraph key.

Gertrude Blanck and Rubin Blanck, for example, pioneers in psychoanalytic developmental psychology, have persuasively argued that the aggressive drive is the drive to differentiation, and Eros is the drive to integration, and disruption of either one results in serious pathology (we will return to this in chap.

This was more than a little ironic since it was he, in his annus mirabilis of 1905, who had so persuasively explained how photons of light could sometimes behave like particles and sometimes like waves—.

And then work again, this time on the animosity between the Limiter leader and Rogan, and talk better, more persuasively then he ever had before.

He spoke quietly but persuasively, and he sensed the mood swing in his favour.

He'd spent most of the holiday itself at Murray Hill Psychiatric Hospital in Manhattan and the Friday after it in his father's office, listening to the old man argue persuasively, then insist belligerently, that his son take up internal medicine-going so far as to condition his continuing financial support of the young man's education on his choice of specialty.

Kenge, using his silver trowel, persuasively and smoothingly, "that this has been a great cause, that this has been a protracted cause, that this has been a complex cause.