English

Verb

overpersuade ‎(third-person singular simple present overpersuades, present participle overpersuading, simple past and past participle overpersuaded)

1. To win someone over through persuasion; to convince (someone) to do something against their own judgement or wishes. [from 17th c.]
   • 1630, John Smith, True Travels, in Kupperman 1988, p. 36:

     Opportunitie casting him into the company of foure French Gallants well attended [...]; over-perswaded him to goe with them into France, to the Dutchesse of Mercury, from whom they should not only have meanes, but also Letter of favour to her noble Duke [...].

   • 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not…, Penguin 2012 (Parade's End), p. 62:

     ‘And I let him overpersuade me. He was right, really.’