convinceable

comparative more convinceable · superlative most convinceable

1. alternativerareAlternative form of convincible.

   The convinceable young man stands in the same relationship to the vicar as the convinceable reader of the Emile to Rousseau.

   1969, Robert J. Ellrich, Rousseau and his reader: the rhetorical situation of the major works

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   It may be thought that able ought to be changed into ible, especially after g and c soft: as convincible, tangible, &c.; but it seems better to preserve uniformity by writing convinceable, tangeable, or touchable.

   1848 October 7, “Mr. Gilchrist's Orthographical Reform”, in The Monthly Magazine, volume 38, part 2, page 216

   But in truth, reason, in little-thinking and much-acting men, who pass pretty frequently from a youth of utter instability to a maturity of set stiffness, is by no means the ever-living, and therefore ever-open and convinceable thing we seem to think.

   1876, John Grote, A Treatise on the Moral Ideals, page 483

   I would suspect that those who are not at all convinced by it have distinct prejudices of their own and are not too convinceable!

   2010, Albert Ellis, All Out!: An Autobiography, page 469