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Convince

//kənˈvɪns// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To make someone believe, or feel sure about something, especially by using logic, argument or evidence.

    "I wouldn't have or do something, unless I'm convinced that it's good."

  2. 2
    make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something wordnet
  3. 3
    To persuade.
  4. 4
    To overcome, conquer, vanquish. obsolete, transitive

    "[…]his two Chamberlaines / Will I with Wine, and Waſſell, ſo conuince, / That Memorie, the Warder of the Braine, / Shall be a Fume,[…]"

  5. 5
    To behave believably in a role; to make someone perceive oneself as the character being portrayed.
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  1. 6
    To confute; to prove wrong. obsolete, transitive

    "For hee mightily conuinced the Iewes, and that publikely, shewing by the scriptures, that Iesus was Christ."

  2. 7
    To prove guilty; to convict. obsolete, transitive

    "Which of you conuinceth mee of ſinne?"

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin convincō (“I refute, prove”), from con- + vincō (“I conquer, vanquish”). Doublet of convict. Displaced native Old English oferreċċan.

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