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Definition of Overpersuading
1. overpersuade [v] - See also: overpersuade
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overpersuading
Literary usage of Overpersuading
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's by Plutarch, John Dryden (1895)
"Therefore the rest of the commanders, overpersuading Archelaus, and drawing up
the army, covered the plain with horses, chariots, bucklers, targets. ..."
2. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1884)
"... communication with the young man; but I—I know not how it •came about; she
hath such a winning and overpersuading way, and is herself so fearless. ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1849)
"The amateur performance, the select company, and the overpersuading to write the
epilogue, prove that Mr. Jephson had his great and little entrees to the ..."
4. Herodotus by Herodotus (1921)
"... and Cyrus's by overpersuading him. Nay, but you shall rue it ; long have I
waited for a pretext to deal with you." With that Cambyses took his bow to ..."
5. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Masterpieces by Isidore Singer, William Guild Howard (1913)
"The latter gladly gave her permission, and lent her assistance in overcoming and
overpersuading ..."
6. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle by Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle (1903)
"... to Geraldine's marked displeasure, who delights in persuading people to alter
their plans for the mere pleasure and pride of overpersuading them. ..."
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