persuasion
I
noun
actuation, advocacy, alignment, argument, blandishment, cajolement, cajolery, cajoling, coaxing, conversion, dissuasion, encouragement, enlistment, enticement, exhortation, incitation, incitement, inducement, influence, insistence, inveiglement, motivation, pleading, pressure, prompting, propaganda, proselytism, salesmanship, solicitation, suasion, winning over
II
index
belief (something believed), concept, conclusion (determination), credence, denomination, dogma, force (compulsion), guidance, idea, incentive, inducement, instigation, motive, opinion (belief), patronage (power to appoint jobs), pressure, propaganda, seduction, standpoint, surety (certainty)
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006