Convince vs Persuasively - What's the difference?
convince | persuasively |
To make someone believe, or feel sure about something, especially by using logic, argument or evidence.
* Atterbury
To persuade.
(obsolete) To overcome, conquer, vanquish.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To confute; to prove wrong.
* Francis Bacon
(obsolete) To prove guilty; to convict.
* Bible, John viii. 46
* Dryden
In a manner intended to convince or persuade.
As a verb convince
is to make someone believe, or feel sure about something, especially by using logic, argument or evidence.As an adverb persuasively is
in a manner intended to convince or persuade.convince
English
Verb
(convinc)- Such convincing proofs and assurances of it as might enable them to convince others.
- His two chamberlains / Will I with wine and wassail so convince / That memory, the warder of the brain, / Shall be a fume.
- God never wrought miracle to convince' atheism, because his ordinary works ' convince it.
- Which of you convinceth me of sin?
- Seek not to convince me of a crime / Which I can ne'er repent, nor you can pardon.
Synonyms
* persuade * satisfy * assure * convert * win overpersuasively
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- The eloquent speaker persuasively stated her argument.