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persuasion

English

Alternative forms

  • perswasion (obsolete)

Etymology

From French persuasion and its source, Latin persu?si?, from persu?d?re, from su?d?re (to advise, recommend).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /p??swe??(?)n/
  • (US) IPA(key): /p??swe???n/

Noun

persuasion (countable and uncountable, plural persuasions)

  1. The act of persuading, or trying to do so; the addressing of arguments to someone with the intention of changing their mind or convincing them of a certain point of view, course of action etc. [from 14th c.]
    • 2006, Rachel Morris, "Borderline Catastrophe", Washington Monthly, vol. 38:10:
      With the base unleashed, the White House was unable to broker a compromise, either by persuasion or by pressure.
  2. An argument or other statement intended to influence one's opinions or beliefs; a way of persuading someone. [from 14th c.]
    • 1928, "The New Pictures", Time, 13 Feb 1928:
      Sadie curses, weeps, then, infected by Mr. Hamilton's writhing persuasions, prays and becomes penitent.
  3. A strongly held conviction, opinion or belief. [from 16th c.]
    It is his persuasion that abortion should never be condoned.
    • 2010, "We don't need gay stereotypes", The Guardian, 6 Feb 2010:
      Social understanding and equality can neither be nurtured through fear, nor intimidation. Surely this goes for people of all sexual persuasions.
  4. One's ability or power to influence someone's opinions or feelings; persuasiveness. [from 16th c.]
  5. A specified religious adherence, a creed; any school of thought or ideology. [from 17th c.]
    • 2009, US Catholic (letter), May 2009:
      As a convert from the Baptist persuasion more than 40 years ago, I still feel like an outsider in the church despite the kindness and acceptance of Catholic friends.
  6. (by extension, often humorous) Another personal, animal or inanimate trait that is not (very) liable to be changed by persuasion, such as sex, gender, ethnicity, origin, profession or nature.
    • 1871 February 14, J.J., "More Solution", Latter-Day Saints Millennial Star, page 105.
    • 1919, Pere Marquette Magazine, Vol. 11, page 19.
    • 1967, Taxes. The Tax Magazine, vol. 45, issue 2, page 698.
    • 1984, The Medical Journal of Australia, page 739.
    • 2015, Leslie Kelly, No More Bad Girls, in New Year's Resolution: Romance!: Say Yes\No More Bad Girls\Just a Fling, Harlequin, page 125.

Antonyms

  • dissuasion

Derived terms

  • persuade
  • persuasive
  • suasion

Translations


French

Etymology

From Latin persuasio, from persuadere, from suadere (to advise, recommend).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /p??.s?a.zj??/

Noun

persuasion f (plural persuasions)

  1. persuasion

Further reading

  • “persuasion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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power

English

Alternative forms

  • powre (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English poer, from Old French poeir, from Vulgar Latin *pot?re, from Latin possum, posse (to be able); see potent. Compare Modern French pouvoir. Displaced native Old English anweald.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?pa??(?)/, /?pa?.?(?)/
    • (with triphthong smoothing) IPA(key): /pa?/, /pa?/, /p??/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /?pa?.?/, /?pa??/, [?p?a???], [?p?a???]
  • Rhymes: -a?.?(?), -a??(?)
  • Hyphenation: pow?er

Noun

power (countable and uncountable, plural powers)

  1. Ability to do or undergo something.
    • 2018, Marilyn McCord Adams, Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God (page 74)
      If it is spirits who have power to suffer, it seems they would also have active powers to think and will.
  2. (social) Ability to coerce, influence or control.
    1. (countable) Ability to affect or influence.
      • An incident which happened about this time will set the characters of these two lads more fairly before the discerning reader than is in the power of the longest dissertation.
      • Thwackum, on the contrary, maintained that the human mind, since the fall, was nothing but a sink of iniquity, till purified and redeemed by grace. [] The favourite phrase of the former, was the natural beauty of virtue; that of the latter, was the divine power of grace.
      • 1998, Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now
        Past and future obviously have no reality of their own. Just as the moon has no light of its own, but can only reflect the light of the sun, so are past and future only pale reflections of the light, power, and reality of the eternal present.
    2. Control or coercion, particularly legal or political (jurisdiction).
      • 1949, Eric Blair, aka George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
        The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. [...] We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.
      • 2005, Columbia Law Review, April
        In the face of expanding federal power, California in particular struggled to maintain control over its Chinese population.
    3. (metonymically, chiefly in the plural) The people in charge of legal or political power, the government.
      Synonym: powers that be
    4. (metonymically) An influential nation, company, or other such body.
  3. (physical, uncountable) Effectiveness.
    1. Physical force or strength.
    2. Electricity or a supply of electricity.
    3. A measure of the rate of doing work or transferring energy.
    4. The strength by which a lens or mirror magnifies an optical image.
  4. (colloquial, dated) A large amount or number.
    • The threatning words of duke Robert comming at the last to king Henries eares, caused him foorthwith to conceiue verie sore displeasure against a power of men sent into Normandie.
  5. Any of the elementary forms or parts of machines: three primary (the lever, inclined plane, and pulley) and three secondary (the wheel-and-axle, wedge, and screw).
    the mechanical powers
  6. (physics, mechanics) A measure of the effectiveness that a force producing a physical effect has over time. If linear, the quotient of: (force multiplied by the displacement of or in an object) ÷ time. If rotational, the quotient of: (force multiplied by the angle of displacement) ÷ time.
  7. (mathematics)
    1. A product of equal factors (and generalizations of this notion): x n {\displaystyle x^{n}} , read as " x {\displaystyle x} to the power of n {\displaystyle n} " or the like, is called a power and denotes the product x × x × ? × x {\displaystyle x\times x\times \cdots \times x} , where x {\displaystyle x} appears n {\displaystyle n} times in the product; x {\displaystyle x} is called the base and n {\displaystyle n} the exponent.
    2. (set theory) Cardinality.
    3. (statistics) The probability that a statistical test will reject the null hypothesis when the alternative hypothesis is true.
  8. (biblical, in the plural) In Christian angelology, an intermediate level of angels, ranked above archangels, but exact position varies by classification scheme.

Usage notes

  • Adjectives often used with "power": electric, nuclear, optical, mechanical, political, absolute, corporate, institutional, military, economic, solar, magic, magical, huge, physical, mental, intellectual, emotional, spiritual, sexual, seductive, coercive, erotic, natural, cultural, positive, negative, etc.

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:power
  • Antonyms

    • impotence
    • weakness

    Hyponyms

    Derived terms

    Related terms

    Descendants

    • ? German: Power
    • ? Welsh: p?er

    Translations

    Verb

    power (third-person singular simple present powers, present participle powering, simple past and past participle powered)

    1. (transitive) To provide power for (a mechanical or electronic device).
      This CD player is powered by batteries.
    2. (transitive) To hit or kick something forcefully.
    3. To enable or provide the impetus for.

    Derived terms

    • power down
    • power up
    • empower

    Translations

    Adjective

    power (comparative more power, superlative most power)

    1. (Singapore, colloquial) Impressive.

    Further reading

    • power at OneLook Dictionary Search

    Anagrams

    • powre

    German

    Etymology 1

    From French pauvre, from Latin pauper.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /?po?v?r/, [?po?v?]
    • Hyphenation: po?wer

    Adjective

    power (comparative powerer, superlative am powersten)

    1. (regional, informal) poor, miserable
    Declension

    Etymology 2

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /?pa???r/, [?pa???]
    • Homophone: Power

    Verb

    power

    1. singular imperative of powern
    2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of powern

    Further reading

    • “power” in Duden online

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