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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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"Cogent" Quotes from Famous Books

... More cogent objection has been taken to the character of the 'message' as judged from a philosophic point of view. It is the expression or exposition of a vivid a priori religious faith confirmed by positive experience; and it reflects as such a ...

— Life and Letters of Robert Browning • Mrs. Sutherland Orr

... form, nor has he any power save that granted him by God for vengeance. This being true, the whole belief in the Devil's intercourse with witches is undermined. Such, very briefly, were the philosophic bases of Scot's skepticism. Yet the more cogent parts of his work were those in which he denied the validity of any evidence so far offered for the existence of witches. What is witchcraft? he asked; and his answer is worth quoting. "Witchcraft is in truth a cousening art, wherin the ...

— A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 • Wallace Notestein

... of the higher controversial criticism. Its literary style is good, its controversial manner excellent, and its writer's emphasis does not escape in italics and notes of exclamation, but is all reserved for lucid and cogent reasoning. Altogether a book of an excellent spirit, written with ...

— The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI - The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I • Thomas W. (Thomas William) Allies

... to go forth to the kings of the earth, and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of the great day of God Almighty. Thus all that is revealed of them from beginning to end (and scriptures might be multiplied on the point) furnishes the most cogent reason why all should be keenly awake to their existence and their work, and be ever watchful against their influence ...

— Modern Spiritualism • Uriah Smith

... her to Gannett. This discovery had not been agreeable to her self-esteem. She had preferred to think that Tillotson had himself embodied all her reasons for leaving him; and those he represented had seemed cogent enough to stand in no need of reinforcement. Yet she had not left him till she met Gannett. It was her love for Gannett that had made life with Tillotson so poor and incomplete a business. If she ...

— The Greater Inclination • Edith Wharton

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