convinceable

English

Etymology

convince + -able

Adjective

convinceable (comparative more convinceable, superlative most convinceable)

  1. (rare) Alternative form of convincible
    • 1848 October 7, The Monthly Magazine, volume 38, page 216:
      It may be thought that able ought to be changed into ible, especially after g and c soit: as convincible, tangible, &c.; but it seems better to preserve uniformity by writing convinceable, tangeable, or touchable.
    • 1876, John Grote, A Treatise on the Moral Ideals, page 483:
      But in truth, reason, in little-thinking and much-acting men, who pass pretty frequently from a youth of utter instability to a maturity of set stiffness, is by no means the ever-living, and therefore ever-open and convinceable thing we seem to think.
    • 1969, Robert J. Ellrich, Rousseau and his reader: the rhetorical situation of the major works:
      The convinceable young man stands in the same relationship to the vicar as the convinceable reader of the Emile to Rousseau.
    • 2010, Albert Ellis, All Out!: An Autobiography, page 469:
      I would suspect that those who are not at all convinced by it have distinct prejudices of their own and are not too convinceable!
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