Word Meanings - CONVICTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Convincing. The best and most convictive argument. Glanwill. -- Con*vict"ive*ly, adv. -- Con*vict"ive*ness, n.

Related words: (words related to CONVICTIVE)

• CONVINCIBLE
  1. Capable of being convinced or won over. 2. Capable of being confuted and disproved by argument; refutable. Sir T. Browne.
• CONVINCER
  One who, or that which, convinces; one who wins over by proof.
• CONVICTIVE
  Convincing. The best and most convictive argument. Glanwill. -- Con*vict"ive*ly, adv. -- Con*vict"ive*ness, n.
• ARGUMENTIZE
  To argue or discuss. Wood.
• ARGUMENTATIVE
  1. Consisting of, or characterized by, argument; containing a process of reasoning; as, an argumentative discourse. 2. Adductive as proof; indicative; as, the adaptation of things to their uses is argumentative of infinite wisdom in the Creator.
• ARGUMENTAL
  Of, pertaining to, or containing, argument; argumentative.
• ARGUMENTABLE
  Admitting of argument. Chalmers.
• ARGUMENT
  The quantity on which another quantity in a table depends; as, the altitude is the argument of the refraction. (more info) 1. Proof; evidence. There is.. no more palpable and convincing argument of the existence of a Deity. Ray. Why, then, is it
• CONVINCINGNESS
  The power of convincing, or the quality of being convincing.
• CONVINCE
  1. To overpower; to overcome; to subdue or master. His two chamberlains Will I with wine and wassail so convince That memory, the warder of the brain, Shall be a fume. Shak. 2. To overcome by argument; to force to yield assent to truth; to satisfy
• CONVINCEMENT
  Act of convincing, or state of being convinced; conviction. The fear of a convincement. Milton.
• CONVINCINGLY
  in a convincing manner; in a manner to compel assent.
• ARGUMENTATION
  1. The act of forming reasons, making inductions, drawing conclusions, and applying them to the case in discussion; the operation of inferring propositions, not known or admitted as true, from facts or principles known, admitted, or proved to be
• INCONVINCIBLY
  In a manner not admitting of being convinced.
• REARGUMENT
  An arguing over again, as of a motion made in court.
• INCONVINCIBLE
  Not convincible; incapable of being convinced. None are so inconvincible as your half-witted people. Gov. of the Tongue.