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Persuading vs Restraining - What's the difference?

persuading | restraining |

As verbs the difference between persuading and restraining

is that persuading is while restraining is .

As nouns the difference between persuading and restraining

is that persuading is an act of persuasion while restraining is the act by which someone or something is restrained.

persuading

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of persuasion.
  • * 1833 , William Steven, The history of the Scottish church, Rotterdam (page 63)
    • And, as I know from what you have now found upon your own souls, since he came amongst you, while under the preachings and persuadings of such a singularly serious Gospel minister, you will be restlessly solicitous till he be settled

    restraining

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which someone or something is restrained.
  • * George Meredith
    • She had the privilege of a soul beyond our minor rules and restrainings to speak her wishes to the true wife of a mock husband—no husband; less a husband than this shadow of a woman a wife, she said;