convictive

comparative more convictive · superlative most convictive

1. datedconvincing

   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

   1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “(please specify either |book=1 to 9 or the page)”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC

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   […]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.

   1653, Henry More, An Antidote against Atheisme, or An Appeal to the Natural Faculties of the Minde of Man, whether There Be Not a God, London: […] Roger Daniel, […], →OCLC

   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

   c. 1700, John Howe, The Redeemer's Dominion over the Invisible World