Verb

To rest with confidence, as when fully satisfied of the veracity, integrity, or ability of persons, or of the certainty of facts or of evidence; to have confidence; to trust; to depend.

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Verb

(convinc)

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

* Atterbury

Such convincing proofs and assurances of it as might enable them to convince others.

To persuade.

(obsolete) To overcome, conquer, vanquish.

* Shakespeare

His two chamberlains / Will I with wine and wassail so convince / That memory, the warder of the brain, / Shall be a fume.

(obsolete) To confute; to prove wrong.

* Francis Bacon

God never wrought miracle to convince' atheism, because his ordinary works ' convince it.

(obsolete) To prove guilty; to convict.

* Bible, John viii. 46

Which of you convinceth me of sin?

* Dryden

Seek not to convince me of a crime / Which I can ne'er repent, nor you can pardon.