Convictive

Quick meaning: Convictive is an adjective meaning (dated) convincing.

Meaning

(dated) convincing.

Example Sentences

He made quite other; while that moon he made To shine there, at the first love’s covenant, Shines still, convictive as a marriage-ring Before adulterous eyes

[…]Arguments but such as are so convictive, that a mans Understanding shall be forced to confesse that it is impossible to be otherwise then I have concluded.

But yet more distinctly consider, why doth he here represent himself under this character, “He that liveth and was dead,” but that he might put us in mind of that most convictive argument of his love, his submitting to die for us

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