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persuasives

persuasives is the plural of persuasive.

Meaning of persuasive

Noun

persuasive (plural persuasives)

  1. That which persuades; incitement.
    • He smiled a very knowing smile, and setting up a halloo, and shaking his leathern thong, away we went at the rate of seven or eight miles an hour. I had no occasion to go further with my persuasives; the pace was kept up, […]1839, George Robert Gleig, Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary: Visited in 1837, volume 1, page 68

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Questions about persuasives

What is persuasives the plural of?
Persuasives is the plural of persuasive.

Words near persuasives in the dictionary

  1. persuasive
  2. persuasive precedent
  3. persuasive precedents
  4. persuasively
  5. persuasiveness
  6. persuasives
  7. persuasory
  8. persubstituted
  9. persue
  10. persued
  11. persues

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