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- adverb In a
convinced manner; with belief or conviction.
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Examples
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His godfather drew back from him, and comically opening his eyes wide, said convincedly:
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"You're not going to drop down dead," she replied convincedly.
T. Tembarom 1913
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"The quarter-back just bawls out whatever comes into his head and then he tosses the ball to whichever chap looks as if he was wide enough awake to catch it and that chap makes a break at the line wherever he happens to think he can get through," continued Amy convincedly.
Left Tackle Thayer Ralph Henry Barbour 1907
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"No one," he said convincedly, "could get that much nastiness into a small bottle for less than a dollar!"
Left Guard Gilbert Ralph Henry Barbour 1907
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His godfather drew back from him, and comically opening his eyes wide, said convincedly:
The Man Who Was Afraid Maksim Gorky 1902
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Was it indeed true that the only reason why he found these things strange was that he could not yet quite bring home to his imagination the fact that the world now was convincedly Christian as a whole?
Dawn of All Robert Hugh Benson 1892
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And if, as some estimated, a third of England were still convincedly Catholic, and perhaps not more than one twentieth convincedly Protestant, might not Mary Stuart, with her charm, accomplish more even than Mary Tudor with her lack of it?
Come Rack! Come Rope! Robert Hugh Benson 1892
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He spoke with emphasis against the loosening of morality, recommended early marriage, and above all _education_; denounced the consumption of alcohol so strenuously and convincedly that then and there as he spoke he resolved himself henceforth to abstain from anything stronger than lager beer or the lighter
Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892
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But, as soon as a country is convincedly Catholic -- as soon, that is to say, as her civilization rests upon Catholicism _and nothing else_, that country has a perfect right to protect herself by the death penalty against those who menace her very existence as a civilized community.
Dawn of All Robert Hugh Benson 1892
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And he understood, at any rate intellectually, that if he could once realize that the dogmas of the Church were the dogmas of the universe; and not only that, but that the world convincedly realized it too; -- why then, the fact that the civilization of to-day was actually moulded upon it would no longer bewilder him.
Dawn of All Robert Hugh Benson 1892
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