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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
suasion /ˈsweɪʒ(ə)n/

▶noun formal persuasion as opposed to force or compulsion.

– derivatives
suasive adjective.

– origin ME: from OFr., or from L. suasio(n-), from suadere ‘to urge’.

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