Persuade vs Soliciting - What's the difference?
persuade | soliciting |
To successfully convince (someone) to agree to, accept, or do something, usually through reasoning and verbal influence. Compare sway.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
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* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=November 10, author=Jeremy Wilson, work=Telegraph
, title= To urge, plead; to try to convince (someone to do something).
* (Bible), 2 (w) xviii. 32
* 1834 , (w),
(obsolete) To convince of by argument, or by reasons offered or suggested from reflection, etc.; to cause to believe.
* (Bible), (w) vi. 9
The act of one who solicits.
* 1848 , A house and its three tenants'' (in ''The Dublin University Magazine , volume 32, page 162)
As verbs the difference between persuade and soliciting
is that persuade is while soliciting is .As a noun soliciting is
the act of one who solicits.persuade
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Alternative forms
* perswade (obsolete)Verb
(persuad)- That salesman was able to persuade me into buying this bottle of lotion.
- We will persuade him, be it possible.
- The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits. He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. Nobody would miss them, he explained.
England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report, passage=The most persistent tormentor was Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, who scored a hat-trick in last month’s corresponding fixture in Iceland. His ability to run at defences is instantly striking, but it is his clever use of possession that has persuaded some shrewd judges that he is an even better prospect than Theo Walcott.}}
- Hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you.
A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska 1987, p. 34:
- He persuaded me to go home, but I refused.
- Beloved, we are persuaded better things of you.
Synonyms
* convinceAntonyms
* dissuadeDerived terms
* persuasion * persuasivesoliciting
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Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- His wife added no timid solicitings to the advice of his well-wishers; for she saw he considered it his duty to remain, and be a sort of rallying point to the humble supporters of quiet and good order