persuasively

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Persuasively means in a way that brings others round to your view. Argue persuasively.

It judges the effect rather than the truth, so something wrong can be argued persuasively. Anybody who speaks persuasively is worth listening to and worth checking.

Definitions of persuasively

1adverbpersuasivelyIn a way that brings others round to your view.C1
“He put the case persuasively and lost the vote anyway.”

persuasively is a manner.

Where it comes from

Proto-Indo-European
*sweh₂d-
Medieval Latin
persuāsīvus
Middle French
persuasif
English
persuasive
English, today
persuasively

From persuasive + -ly. persuasive comes from Middle French persuasif, from Medieval Latin persuāsīvus, from Latin - past participle stem of persuadeo + -īvus.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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persuasively in the wild

In marketing, promotion refers to any type of marketing communication used to inform target audiences of the relative merits of a product, service, brand or issue, persuasively.
Promotion (marketing)
In a review of Zuber's 2002 book for H-Net, Kelly McFall wrote: "Zuber's argument persuasively demolishes the commonly accepted version of the Schlieffen Plan.
Terence Zuber
However, narremes have yet to be persuasively defined in practice.
Narreme
However, the Soviet spy was able to allay suspicions of himself by arguing persuasively that he had not been to blame for his delayed travel.
Konstantin Volkov (diplomat)
I say it because new knowledge and hard experience argue persuasively that both our programs and our institutions in America need to be reformed.
1970 State of the Union Address

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