What's the difference between suasion and suasive?

Suasion


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of persuading; persuasion; as, moral suasion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was time - once again - for America's might and moral suasion to be harnessed; it was time to once again shape a new security strategy for an ever-changing world.
  • (2) But proponents say a nuclear weapons ban will create moral suasion – in the vein of the cluster and landmine conventions – for nuclear weapons states to disarm, and establish an international norm prohibiting nuclear weapons’ development, possession and use.
  • (3) What was not inevitable was that this week's spate of moral suasion would work.

Suasive


Definition:

  • (a.) Having power to persuade; persuasive; suasory.

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