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adjective

Cogent adj.

Compelling, in a physical sense; powerful. (Obs.) "The cogent force of nature."

Having the power to compel conviction or move the will; constraining; conclusive; forcible; powerful; not easily reasisted. "No better nor more cogent reason." "Proofs of the most cogent description." "The tongue whose strains were cogent as commands, Revered at home, and felt in foreign lands."

Synonyms: Forcible; powerful; potent; urgent; strong; persuasive; convincing; conclusive; influential.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... here put forward, there is much in its favour, and it shows a considerable degree of keen argument and cogent reasoning that, in any case, is a valuable contribution to this department of literature. Moreover, it may be the incentive for further exploration of the locality mentioned at some future time, with the view of solving the secrets of the strange carving and wonderful ...

— The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 • Ernest Favenc

... you might have a fall, and I know that I should feel obliged to stop, and I am in a hurry. If that reason does not strike you as a cogent one, I am sorry, for to me it ...

— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

... conquerors against odds, and partly because their demand for independence was thought too natural to be resisted at the sword's point by a Government founded on the right of insurrection only. To these merely sentimental and not very cogent considerations was added the more potent and weighty reflection that what the Southerners had done no Power, whether American or ...

— Continental Monthly, Vol. II. July, 1862. No. 1. • Various

... decomposition, until two men could scarcely be found whose views coincided; nay, even more than that, that the same man should change his opinion with the changing incidents of the different periods of his life. No matter what might be the plausible guise of the beginning, and the ostensibly cogent arguments for its necessity, once let the decomposition commence, and no human power could arrest it until it had become thorough and complete. Considering the prestige, the authority, and the mass of ...

— History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) - Revised Edition • John William Draper

... filled a footbath with cold water, and was commanding the Rev. Philip Stimcoe to strip—as he put it—to the teeth, and immerse himself forthwith. As the Rev. Philip Stimcoe, patriot and martyr, he was obstinately, and with even more passion, refusing to do anything of the kind, and for the equally cogent reasons that he was a Protestant of the Protestants and that the ...

— Poison Island • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (Q)

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