assuasive
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "If in the Breast tumultuous Joys arise, Musick her soft, assuasive Voice applies; Or when the Soul is press’d with Cares Exalts her in enlivening Airs."
- "“[…] Perhaps,” said Bounderby, starting with all his might at his so quiet and assuasive father-in-law, “you know where your daughter is at the present time?”"
- "The medicine, whatever it might be, had the merit, rare in doctor’s stuff, of being pleasant to take, assuasive of thirst, and imbued with a hardly perceptible fragrance,"
- "The stuff gagged him but he forced it down. This wasn’t smart but the alcohol had an assuasive effect."
- "[…] the heat of the sun operates in all its vigour, without an assuasive to mitigate its force."
- "1817, Richard Yates, The Basis of National Welfare, London: F. C. and J. Rivington et al., § 9, p. 112, the bland, the courteous, the truly Christian assuasives of friendly attention"
Etymology
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Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
assuasively
assuasiveness