convinceable

Definitions

Adjective. [C1]

Examples

“It may be thought that able ought to be changed into ible, especially after g and c soft: as convincible, tangible, &c.; but it seems better to preserve⟳ uniformity by writing convinceable, tangeable, or touchable.”

“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⟳.”

“The convinceable young man stands in the same relationship to the vicar as the convinceable reader of the Emile to Rousseau.”

“I would suspect⟳ that those who are not at all convinced by it have⟳ distinct prejudices of their own⟳ and are not too convinceable!”

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