Definition of "suasive" []

• Having the power to persuade or convince; persuasive. (adjective)

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• "This means that no suasive grounds in reason exist that would also make it plausible."
• "The virtue of AOA as opposed to OA is that AOA is sufficiently suasive to ensure economic commitment and participation."
• "About the best one can say for it is that it depends on substantial and moot principles of Aristotelian metaphysics, and, in any case, as a suasive argument, begs the question."