perswasion

English

Noun

perswasion

  1. Obsolete form of persuasion.
    • 1650, Robert Persons, A Christian Directory […] ‎:
      The ſixt thing that uſeth to ſtay and hinder men from mature Reſolution, Which is the deceitfull hope and perſwaſion to do it better, or with more eaſe afterward.
    • 1738, David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature Book I, Part III, Section VIII
      Being fully satisfyed on this head, I make a third set of experiments, in order to know, whether any thing be requisite, beside the customary transition, towards the production of this phaenomenon of belief. I therefore change the first impression into an idea; and observe, that though the customary transition to the correlative idea still remains, yet there is in reality no belief nor perswasion.
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