ppl. a. [f. CONVINCE v. + -ED1.] Brought to a state of conviction; firmly persuaded.

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1685.  H. More, Illustration, 345. The slain with the Sword are the convinced and converted by the powerfull preaching of the word.

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1829.  Southey, O. Newman, VII. Soon … thou wilt have cause To give that sentence thy convinced assent.

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1886.  Stevenson, Pr. Otto, I. iv. 52. I am a convinced authoritarian. I share none of those … Utopian fancies.

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  Hence Convincedly adv., Convincedness.

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1812.  W. Taylor, in Monthly Mag., XXXIII. 239. My observation has not been sufficiently lasting to speak convincedly on this topic.

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1882.  Athenæum, 12 Aug., 220/1. The hero of the piece, played … with a resoluteness, coolness, and convincedness altogether admirable.

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1883.  Cable, Dr. Sevier, xv. The students nodded convincedly to the speaker.

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