Unpersuaded

ppl. a. (UN-¹ 8.)

1534.  More, Comf. agst. Trib., III. xix. Wks. 1242/1. If you had assented in woordes and in your mynde departed unperswaded.

1570.  Dee, Math. Pref., 10. Who can remaine … vnpersuaded, to loue … the excellent Science of Arithmetike?

1799.  Stanhope, Paraphr., IV. 62. The present stupidity of this unpersuaded Man.

1777.  Dodd, Lett. to Johnson, 23 May, in Boswell. Not a soul could be left unconvinced and unpersuaded.

1818.  Shelley, Rosal. & Helen, 648. His very gestures touched to tears The unpersuaded tyrant, never So moved before.

1882.  Farrar, Early Chr., I. 540. Myriads of Jewish Christians remained secretly unpersuaded.

  Hence Unpersuadedness.

1617.  Ainsworth, Annot. Ps. lviii. 5. The serpent Python … noteth … the unperswadednes which this Psalm showeth ta be naturally in that beast.