† 1. Not removable by persuasion. Obs.–1
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, I. xv. Who (finding his sisters unperswadeable melancholy …) had for a time left her court.
2. Not susceptible to persuasion; obstinate.
1611. Florio, Inpersuadibile, vnperswadable.
1647. Trapp, Comm. Col. iii. 6. Unperswadable, uncounsellable persons, that regard not good courses.
1668. Howe, Bless. Righteous, xii. 219. They … are utterly unperswadable towards God.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa, I. 48. A mind, till now, not thought either unpersuadable or ungenerous!
1817. T. L. Peacock, Melincourt, xxi. After a certain period of life … men in general become perfectly unpersuadable to all practical purposes.
1865. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., XVIII. vii. V. 149. Deploring that sad mistake; but unpersuadable to stand, and try amendment of it.
absol. 1685. Baxter, Paraphr. N. T., Matt. iii. 12. He will burn the unbelievers and unperswadable as chaff.
Hence Unpersuadableness.
1615. Byfield, Expos. Colos. iii. 6. They will not be persuaded by the … Servants of God; and so they are children of unpersuadableness.
1685. Baxter, Paraphr. N. T., Acts xxi. 14. His resolution and unperswadableness.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa, II. 57. Resentment and unpersuadableness are not natural to you.
1786. A. Gib, Sacr. Contempl., 306. Children of disobedience, of unpersuadableness.
