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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)
- 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.
- 2006, Rachel Morris, "Borderline Catastrophe", Washington Monthly, vol. 38:10:
- 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.
- 1928, "The New Pictures", Time, 13 Feb 1928:
- 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.
- One's ability or power to influence someone's opinions or feelings; persuasiveness. [from 16th c.]
- 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.
- 2009, US Catholic (letter), May 2009:
- (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.
- 1871 February 14, J.J., "More Solution", Latter-Day Saints Millennial Star, page 105.
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)
- persuasion
Further reading
- “persuasion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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think
English
Alternative forms
- thinck, thinke (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- enPR: th?ngk, IPA(key): /???k/
- (Appalachian) IPA(key): [?æ?k]
- Rhymes: -??k
Etymology 1
From Middle English thinken, thynken, thenken, thenchen, from Old English þen?an, þen?ean (“to think”), from Proto-Germanic *þankijan? (“to think, suppose, perceive”), from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to think, feel, know”). Cognate with Scots think, thynk (“to think”), North Frisian teenk, taanke, tanke, tånke (“to think”), Saterland Frisian toanke (“to think”), West Frisian tinke (“to think”), Dutch denken (“to think”), Afrikaans dink (“to think”), Low German denken (“to think”), dinken, German denken (“to think”), Danish tænke (“to think”), Swedish tänka (“to think”), Norwegian Bokmål tenke (“to think”), Norwegian Nynorsk tenkja (“to think”), Icelandic þekkja (“to know, recognise, identify, perceive”), Latin tonge? (“know”).
Verb
think (third-person singular simple present thinks, present participle thinking, simple past and past participle thought)
- (transitive) To ponder, to go over in one's head.
- So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills, […] a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
- (intransitive) To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.
- (intransitive) To conceive of something or someone (usually followed by of; infrequently, by on).
- (transitive) To be of opinion (that); to consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.
- 1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter IX. "The Sea and the Desert", page 182.
- […] one man showed me a young oak which he had transplanted from behind the town, thinking it an apple-tree.
- 1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter IX. "The Sea and the Desert", page 182.
- (transitive) To guess; to reckon.
- To plan; to be considering; to be of a mind (to do something).
- The cupbearer shrugged up his shoulders in displeasure. "I thought to have lodged him in the solere chamber," said he […]
- To presume; to venture.
- Think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father.
Conjugation
Synonyms
- (ponder): See Thesaurus:ponder
- (communicate to oneself in one's mind): See Thesaurus:think
- (be of the opinion (that)): See Thesaurus:have opinion
- (guess, reckon): guess See Thesaurus:suppose
- (consider, judge, regard something as): See Thesaurus:deem
Derived terms
Related terms
- forthink
- thought
- thunk
- thank
Translations
Noun
think (usually uncountable, plural thinks)
- (chiefly Britain) An act of thinking; consideration (of something).
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English thinken, thynken, thenken (also thinchen, thünchen), from Old English þyncan (“to seem, appear”), from Proto-Germanic *þunkijan? (“to seem”). Cognate with Dutch dunken (“to seem, appear”), German dünken (“to seem, appear”), Danish tykkes (“to seem”), Swedish tycka (“to seem, think, regard”), Icelandic þykja (“to be regarded, be considered, seem”). More at methinks.
Verb
think (third-person singular simple present thinks, present participle thinking, simple past and past participle thought)
- (obsolete except in methinks) To seem, to appear.
Translations
References
Scots
Etymology
From earlier thynk, from Middle English thynken, thinken, from Old English þencan, þen?ean.
Verb
think (third-person singular present thinks, present participle thinking, past thocht, past participle thocht)
- (transitive) to think, to conceive, to have in mind
- (transitive) to believe, to hold as an opinion, to judge; to feel, to have as an emotion
- (transitive or intransitive) to ponder, to meditate, to consider, to reflect on
- (transitive or intransitive) to have scruples, to doubt, to reconsider
- to devise, to work out, to contrive
- (archaic, with shame) to be ashamed
Noun
think (plural thinks)
- thought, opinion, frequently one’s own opinion
References
- “think” in Dictionary of the Scots Language, Scottish Language Dictionaries, Edinburgh, retrieved 19 June 2018.
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