Persuasion
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
akin to peitho, is used in Galatians 5:8 , where the meaning is "this influence that has won you over, or that seems likely to do so;" the use of peitho, in the sense of "to obey," in ver. 7, suggests a play upon words here.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( n.) A creed or belief; a sect or party adhering to a certain creed or system of opinions; as, of the same persuasion; all persuasions are agreed.
(2): ( n.) The act of persuading; the act of influencing the mind by arguments or reasons offered, or by anything that moves the mind or passions, or inclines the will to a determination.
(3): ( n.) The state of being persuaded or convinced; settled opinion or conviction, which has been induced.
(4): ( n.) The power or quality of persuading; persuasiveness.
(5): ( n.) That which persuades; a persuasive.
King James Dictionary [3]
PERSUA'SION, n. s as z. L. persuasio.
1. The act of persuading the act of influencing the mind by arguments or reasons offered, or by any thing that moves the mind or passions, or inclines the will to a determination.
For thou hast all the arts of fine persuasion.
2. The state of being persuaded or convinced settled opinion or conviction proceeding from arguments and reasons offered by others, or suggested by one's own reflections.
When we have no other certainty of being in the right, but our own persuasion that we are so--
3. A creed or belief or a sect or party adhering to a creed or system of opinions as men of the same persuasion all persuasions concur in the measure.
Charles Buck Theological Dictionary [4]
The act of influencing the judgment and passions by arguments or motives. It is different from conviction. Conviction affects the understanding only; persuasion the will and the practice. It is more extensively used than conviction, which last is founded on demonstration natural or supernatural. But all things of which we may be persuaded, are not capable of demonstration.
See Blair's Rhetoric, vol. 2: p. 174.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [5]
the act of influencing the judgment and passions by arguments or motives. It is different from conviction. Conviction affects the understanding only; persuasion the will and practice. It is more extensively used than conviction, which last is founded on demonstration, natural or supernatural. But all things of which we may be persuaded are not capable of demonstration. Eloquence is but the art of persuasion. See Blair, Rhetoric; Maury, Principles of Eloquence; Pulpit Orator.
