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1 Cogency -- rank: 1000

Cogency definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary COGENCY, n. Force; strength; power of compelling; literally, urgency, or driving ... relation to force or pressure on the mid; as the cogency of motives or arguments. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n ... relevance 2: the quality of being valid and rigorous [syn: cogency, validity, rigor, rigour] Merriam Webster's noun Date: 1667 the ... quality or state of being cogent Webster's 1913 Dictionary Cogency Co"gen*cy, n. [See Cogent.] The quality of being ... of compelling conviction; conclusiveness; force. An antecedent argument of extreme cogency. --J. H. Newman. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary see cogent ...

2 Cogent -- rank: 511

Cogent definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary COGENT, a. [See Cogency.] 1. Forcible, in a physical sense; as the cogent force ... Reference Dictionary adj. (of arguments, reasons, etc.) convincing, compelling. Derivatives: cogency n. cogently adv. Etymology: L cogere compel (as CO-, agere ... be told of the Major's impending return. = convincing ADJ • cogency The film makes its points with cogency and force. Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms a. Forcible ...

3 Invalidity -- rank: 440

... Webster's 1828 Dictionary INVALID'ITY, n. Weakness; want of cogency; want of legal force or efficacy; as the invalidity of ... plural -ties) Date: circa 1550 1. lack of validity or cogency 2. incapacitating bodily disability; also invalidism Oxford Reference Dictionary n ... LL. invaliditas want of health.] 1. Want of validity or cogency; want of legal force or efficacy; invalidness; as, the invalidity ...

4 Invalid -- rank: 440

... strong, to avail.] 1. Weak, of no force, weight or cogency. 2. In law, having no force, effect or efficacy; void ... nation. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1: having no cogency or legal force; "invalid reasoning"; "an invalid driver's license ... weak. Cf. Invalid infirm.] 1. Of no force, weight, or cogency; not valid; weak. 2. (Law) Having no force, effect, or ...

5 Validity -- rank: 440

... n 1: the quality of being valid and rigorous [syn: cogency, validity, rigor, rigour] 2: the quality of having legal force ... s Dictionary of English Synonyms n. 1. Soundness, justness, efficacy, cogency, weight, strength, goodness, force, gravity, importance. 2. (Law.) Legal force ... black power, brute force, calculability, charge, charisma, class, clout, cogence, cogency, compulsion, constitutional validity, constitutionalism, constitutionality, dependability, desert, dint, drive, due ...

6 Force -- rank: 348

... active), power, might, energy, vigor. 2. Efficacy, efficiency, potency, validity, cogency, virtue, agency. 3. Violence, compulsion, coercion, constraint, enforcement. 4. [Most ... to, centigram, charge, charisma, charm, chute, clout, coerce, coercion, cogence, cogency, coloring, command, compel, compulsion, concuss, connotation, consequence, constrain, constraint, control ...

7 Strength -- rank: 348

... stoutness. 5. Fortitude, courage, spirit, animation, firmness, resolution. 6. Validity, cogency, efficacy, soundness. 7. Vigor (of style), energy, nervous diction, nerve ... brawn, brawniness, brute force, bulk, burden, charge, charisma, clout, cogence, cogency, cohesiveness, compulsion, concentration, concreteness, core, cuttingness, demonic energy, density, determination ...

8 Pith -- rank: 348

... animals, the spinal marrow. 3. Strength or force. 4. Energy; cogency; concentrated force; closeness and vigor of thought and style. 5 ... Weight, moment, importance. 4. Force, strength, energy, vigor. 5. Energy, cogency, force, vigor, closeness of thought. Moby Thesaurus affective meaning, axiom ...

9 rigour -- rank: 220

... n 1: the quality of being valid and rigorous [syn: cogency, validity, rigor, rigour] 2: something hard to endure; "the asperity ...

10 Rigor -- rank: 220

... rigourousness] 2: the quality of being valid and rigorous [syn: cogency, validity, rigor, rigour] 3: excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the ...

11 QUOTATIONS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT -- rank: 220

... address a popular audience beyond that which guards the substantial cogency of their argument. From the fair application of this reasonable ...

12 Quality -- rank: 220

... cast, character, characteristic, characteristics, choiceness, civilized taste, civilizedness, class, climate, cogency, complexion, composition, condition, configuration, constituents, constitution, crasis, cultivated taste, cultivation ...

13 productivity -- rank: 220

... bountifulness, brute force, charge, charisma, cloud of words, clout, cogence, cogency, compulsion, copiousness, creativeness, creativity, diffuseness, diffusion, diffusiveness, dint, drive, duress ...

14 power structure -- rank: 220

... chain of being, charge, charisma, class, class structure, clout, cogence, cogency, compulsion, condition, cream, dint, directorate, domain, drive, duress, echelon, effect ...

15 pizzazz -- rank: 220

... power, breeziness, briskness, brute force, bubbliness, charge, charisma, clout, cogence, cogency, compulsion, dash, dint, drive, duress, ebullience, effect, effectiveness, effectuality, effervescence ...