PERSUASION

n. 1 inducement, inducing, influence, influencing, exhortation, exhorting, persuading At the bank's persuasion, the company tightened up its cashflow management She has extraordinary powers of persuasion at her command. 2 opinion, belief, creed, faith, set of beliefs, faith, religion, (religious) conviction; sect, denomination, faction, school (of thought), affiliation Till he met Maggie, he had always been of the Baptist persuasion