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convictive

convictive adjective: convincing.

Adjective

convictive (comparative more convictive, superlative most convictive)

  1. (dated) convincing
    • […]Arguments but such as are so convictive, that a mans Understanding shall be forced to confesse that it is impossible to be otherwise then I have concluded.1653, Henry More, An Antidote against Atheisme, or An Appeal to the Natural Faculties of the Minde of Man, whether There Be Not a God, London: […] Roger Daniel, […], →OCLC
    • But yet more distinctly consider, why doth he here represent himself under this character, “He that liveth and was dead,” but that he might put us in mind of that most convictive argument of his love, his submitting to die for usc. 1700, John Howe, The Redeemer's Dominion over the Invisible World

Forms of convictive

comparativemore convictive
superlativemost convictive

Questions about convictive

What does convictive mean?
Convictive means convincing.
What part of speech is convictive?
Convictive is an adjective.

Words near convictive in the dictionary

  1. convicting
  2. conviction
  3. convictional
  4. convictions
  5. convictism
  6. convictive
  7. convictively
  8. convictiveness
  9. convicts
  10. convince
  11. convinceability

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