PERSUASION

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Traducere în limba română

persuasion substantiv

1. putere de convingere / persuasiune.

2. convingere, persuasiune.

3. religie, credinţă; sectă.

4. (glumeţ) neam, speţă, fel;

no one of the male persuasion was there nu era acolo nici un reprezentant al sexului tare.

5. naţionalitate.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Harriet could not long resist so delightful a persuasion.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

You have widely mistaken my character, if you think I can be worked on by such persuasions as these.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

Colonel Brandon was now as happy, as all those who best loved him, believed he deserved to be;—in Marianne he was consoled for every past affliction;—her regard and her society restored his mind to animation, and his spirits to cheerfulness; and that Marianne found her own happiness in forming his, was equally the persuasion and delight of each observing friend.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

So thought Fanny, in good truth and sober sadness, as she sat musing over that too great indulgence and luxury of a fire upstairs: wondering at the past and present; wondering at what was yet to come, and in a nervous agitation which made nothing clear to her but the persuasion of her being never under any circumstances able to love Mr. Crawford, and the felicity of having a fire to sit over and think of it.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Elinor, though never less disposed to speak than at that moment, obliged herself to answer such an attack as this, and, therefore, trying to smile, replied, And have you really, Ma'am, talked yourself into a persuasion of my sister's being engaged to Mr. Willoughby?

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

Mrs. Bennet was perfectly satisfied, and quitted the house under the delightful persuasion that, allowing for the necessary preparations of settlements, new carriages, and wedding clothes, she should undoubtedly see her daughter settled at Netherfield in the course of three or four months.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

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