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# persuasion

noun (persuasion, persuasions)

«persuasion» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Persuasion is getting someone to believe or do something by giving good reasons. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/persuasion/#m1)
2. Persuasion is the skill of doing this. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/persuasion/#m2)
3. (formal) A persuasion is a set of beliefs, especially a religious or political group: «people of all persuasions». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/persuasion/#m3)

### In the lessons

In English lessons pupils write persuasive texts and learn tools of persuasion: facts, opinions, questions, strong words. In everyday life adverts use persuasion. In safety lessons it warns about tricky persuasion by strangers or scams online. Phrases: «powers of persuasion», «with a little persuasion».

### Examples

- With a little persuasion, Dad let us stay up. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/persuasion/#x1)
- Adverts use persuasion to make you buy things. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/persuasion/#x2)
- She has great powers of persuasion. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/persuasion/#x3)
- We studied persuasion in English. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/persuasion/#x4)
- It took a lot of persuasion to get my brother to swim. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/persuasion/#x5)
- Be careful of persuasion from strangers online. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/persuasion/#x6)
- Good persuasion uses facts, not tricks. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/persuasion/#x7)
- People of all persuasions came to the meeting. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/persuasion/#x8)
- Gentleness and kind persuasion win where force and bluster fail. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/persuasion/#x9)

### Note

Usually uncountable in the main sense. Verb: persuade; adjective: persuasive. Spelling: -sion. Persuasion with reasons is fair; pressure and tricks are not.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «persuasion» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/persuasion/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«persuasion» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/persuasion.html) on Mova free.