What does ConVince mean?

Definitions for ConVince
kənˈvɪnscon·vince

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. convert, win over, convinceverb

    make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something

    "He had finally convinced several customers of the advantages of his product"

Wiktionary

  1. convinceverb

    To make someone believe, or feel sure about something, especially by using logic, argument or evidence.

  2. convinceverb

    To overcome, conquer, vanquish.

  3. convinceverb

    To confute (someone); to prove (someone) wrong; to overcome (someone) in argument.

  4. Etymology: From convincere, from con- + vinco.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To CONVINCEverb

    Etymology: convinco, Latin.

    That which I have all this while been endeavouring to convince men of, and to persuade them to, is no other but what God himself doth particularly recommend to us, as proper for human consideration. John Tillotson.

    But having shifted ev’ry form to ’scape,
    Convinc’d of conquest, he resum’d his shape. John Dryden, Virg.

    History is all the light we have in many cases, and we receive from it a great part of the useful truths we have, with a convincing evidence. John Locke.

    To convince all that are ungodly among them, of all their ungodly deeds. Jude 15.

    The discovery of a truth, formerly unknown, doth rather convince man of ignorance, than nature of errour. Walter Raleigh.

    O seek not to convince me of a crime,
    Which I can ne’er repent, nor can you pardon. Dryden.

    Your Italy contains none so accomplished a courtier, to convince the honour of my mistress. William Shakespeare, Cymbeline.

    There are a crew of wretched souls
    That stay his cure; their malady convinces
    The great essay of art. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

    Knaves be such abroad,
    Who having, by their own importunate suit,
    Or voluntary dotage of some mistress,
    Convinc’d or suppled them, they cannot chuse
    But they must blab. William Shakespeare, Othello.

    When Duncan is asleep, his two chamberlains
    Will I, with wine and wassel, so convince,
    That memory, the warder of the brain,
    Shall be a fume. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

Wikipedia

  1. Convince

    Convince, also known as Bongo or Flenke, is a religion from eastern Jamaica. It has roots in Kumina and Jamaican Maroon religion.

ChatGPT

  1. convince

    Convince is a verb that refers to the process of causing someone to believe firmly in the truth of something, persuading them to do something, or making them understand or realize the validity, truth, or importance of a particular concept, belief or idea.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Convinceverb

    to overpower; to overcome; to subdue or master

  2. Convinceverb

    to overcome by argument; to force to yield assent to truth; to satisfy by proof

  3. Convinceverb

    to confute; to prove the fallacy of

  4. Convinceverb

    to prove guilty; to convict

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Convince

    kon-vins′, v.t. to subdue the mind by evidence: to satisfy as to truth or error: (B.) to convict: to refute.—n. Convince′ment.—adjs. Convinc′ible; Convinc′ing, producing conviction.—adv. Convinc′ingly. [L. convincĕre, con, sig. completeness, and vincĕre, victum, to conquer.]

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British National Corpus

  1. Verbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'ConVince' in Verbs Frequency: #672

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of ConVince in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of ConVince in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of ConVince in a Sentence

  1. Renu Begum:

    To convince such young girls at that age that are so vulnerable ... it's just wrong, it's a really evil thing to do. You're breaking up entire families.

  2. James Goodwin:

    A federal judge may well decide that the public didn't have an adequate chance to participate, this legal deficiency could thus convince a judge to send the rule back to the agency to obtain better public feedback.

  3. Henry David Thoreau:

    If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

  4. Amy Coney Barrett:

    My goal today is to convince Justice Sonia Sotomayor that Supreme Court is not comprised of a bunch of partisan hacks, the media, along with hot takes on Twitter, report the results of decisions.

  5. Vittoria Colliza:

    This [ mandates ] was really a change of paradigm, if you think about vaccine hesitancy and how authorities tried to handle it, at the beginning it was really a lot of pressure on explanations, on communication, and the aim was really not to oblige people but to convince them. And at a certain point, given the very large circulation of the Delta variant in several EU countries, authorities move towards something that is a bit more constraining.

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