unpersuasion

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ persuasion

Noun[edit]

unpersuasion (uncountable)

  1. The state of not being persuaded; disbelief or doubt.
    • a. 1684, Robert Leighton, A Practical Commentary on the First Epistle of St. Peter:
      The word here used for disobedience signifies properly unpersuasion; and nothing can more properly express the nature of unbelief than that; and it is the very nature of our corrupt hearts []