Definition of "perswasion"

Places of perswasion and disswasion

1625, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the chapter)”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret

The ſixt thing that uſeth to ſtay and hinder men from mature Reſolution, Which is the deceitfull hope and perſwaſion to do it better, or with more eaſe afterward.

1650, Robert Persons, A Christian Directory […] ‎

Being fully satisfyed on this head, I make a third set of experiments, in order to know, whether any thing be requisite, beside the customary transition, towards the production of this phaenomenon of belief. I therefore change the first impression into an idea; and observe, that though the customary transition to the correlative idea still remains, yet there is in reality no belief nor perswasion.

1738, David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I, Part III, Section VIII