Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Leading the soul; persuading or inducing the mind to assent or follow.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Attractive; persuasive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Attractive;
persuasive .
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Examples
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In the moralist who aspires to move and win men by their best side instead of their worst, the absence of this hardness and the presence of a certain lambency and play even in the exposition of truths of perfect assurance, are essential conditions of psychagogic quality.
Critical Miscellanies (Vol 2 of 3) Essay 1: Vauvenargues John Morley 1880
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London: Murray), we find Grote confirming Mr. Mill's estimate of his father's psychagogic quality.
Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 3 (of 3) Essay 2: The Death of Mr Mill - Essay 3: Mr Mill's Autobiography John Morley 1880
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