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proof

proof [alteration of Middle English preove, from Old French preuve, from Late Latin proba, from Latin probare to prove] 1 : the effect of evidence sufficient to persuade a reasonable person that a particular fact exists see also evidence 2 : the establishment or persuasion by evidence that a particular fact exists see also burden of proof 3 : something (as evidence) that proves or tends to prove the existence of a particular fact see also clear and convincing, preponderance of the evidence, reasonable doubt, standard of proof compare allegation, argument 4 : probate ...

solicit

solicit 1 : to make petition to [ the court] 2 : to ask, induce, advise, or command (a person) to do something and esp. to commit a crime compare coerce, importune 3 : to attempt to persuade (a person) to purchase something 4 : to attempt to bring about or obtain by soliciting a person [ bribes] vi 1 : to make solicitation 2 of a prostitute : to offer to have sexual relations with someone for money ...

Believe

To exercise belief in to credit upon the authority or testimony of another to be persuaded of the truth of upon evidence furnished by reasons arguments and deductions of the mind or by circumstances other than personal knowledge to regard or accept as true to place confidence in to think to consider as to believe a person a statement or a doctrine...

Believer

One who believes one who is persuaded of the truth or reality of some doctrine person or thing...

Coax

To persuade by gentle insinuating courtesy flattering or fondling to wheedle to soothe...

ingratiatory

pleasingly persuasive or intended to persuade as her manner is quiet and ingratiatory and a little too agreeable...

Commove

To urge to persuade to incite...

Disbelief

The act of disbelieving a state of the mind in which one is fully persuaded that an opinion assertion or doctrine is not true refusal of assent credit or credence denial of belief...

Dissuade

To advise or exhort against to try to persuade one from a course...

Epideictic

Serving to show forth explain or exhibit applied by the Greeks to a kind of oratory which by full amplification seeks to persuade...

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