convictive

English

Adjective

convictive (comparative more convictive, superlative most convictive)

1. convincing
   • c. 1700, John Howe, The Redeemer's Dominion over the Invisible World:

     But yet more distinctly consider, why doth he here represent himself under this character, “He that liveth and was dead,” but that he might put us in mind of that most convictive argument of his love, his submitting to die for us

Related terms

• convictively
• convictiveness

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “convictive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)