convinceable
English
Etymology
Adjective
convinceable (comparative more convinceable, superlative most convinceable)
- (rare) Alternative form of convincible
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- 1876, John Grote, A Treatise on the Moral Ideals[1], page 483:
- But in truth, reason, in little-thinking and much-acting men, who pass pretty frequently from a youth of utter instability to a maturity of set stiffness, is by no means the ever-living, and therefore ever-open and convinceable thing we seem to think.
- 1969, Robert J. Ellrich, Rousseau and his reader: the rhetorical situation of the major works:
- The convinceable young man stands in the same relationship to the vicar as the convinceable reader of the Emile to Rousseau.
- 2010, Albert Ellis, All Out!: An Autobiography, page 469:
- I would suspect that those who are not at all convinced by it have distinct prejudices of their own and are not too convinceable!