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Influence   /ˈɪnfluəns/   Listen
Influence

noun
1.
A power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc.
2.
Causing something without any direct or apparent effort.
3.
A cognitive factor that tends to have an effect on what you do.
4.
The effect of one thing (or person) on another.
5.
One having power to influence another.  "He was a bad influence on the children"
verb
(past & past part. influenced; pres. part. influencing)
1.
Have and exert influence or effect.  Synonyms: act upon, work.  "She worked on her friends to support the political candidate"
2.
Shape or influence; give direction to.  Synonyms: determine, mold, regulate, shape.  "Mold public opinion"
3.
Induce into action by using one's charm.  Synonyms: charm, tempt.



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"Influence" Quotes from Famous Books



... prayers enough you mark up your candles with a forked pencil, and your bill shows up all right. And he had a good knack at getting in the complimentary thing here and there about a knight that was likely to advertise—no, I mean a knight that had influence; and he also had a neat gift of exaggeration, for in his time he had kept door for a pious hermit who lived in a sty ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... was intended to be in Fleet Street, which no man can judge that a fellow of our Company, and a well-wisher to those that own the house, would ever be an actor in."[716] Doubtless the owners of other houses had the same sentiments, and exercised what influence they possessed against the scheme. But the most serious opposition in all probability came from the citizens and merchants living in the neighborhood. We know how bitterly they complained about the coaches that brought playgoers to the small Blackfriars Theatre, ...
— Shakespearean Playhouses - A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration • Joseph Quincy Adams
... incontrovertible fact did not influence the demeanour of the shop-woman towards her. There was not better pay in the village, nor a more constant customer than Dinah Brome. In such circumstances, Mrs Littleproud was not the woman to ...
— A Sheaf of Corn • Mary E. Mann
... can be considered as genuine. Morelli writes: "His drawings are found in all the most important collections of Europe,"[78] but he mentions only thirteen, and although many certainly in all the galleries bear his name, and the impress of his influence, later study appears to accept only six as by his own hand; and of these six two are so much inferior to the rest that I cannot bring myself to feel any degree of ...
— Luca Signorelli • Maud Cruttwell
... influence of the softer passion on the young gentlemen—and they all, to a boy, doted on Florence—could restrain them from taking quite a noisy leave of Paul; waving hats after him, pressing downstairs to shake hands with him, crying individually 'Dombey, don't forget me!' and indulging in many ...
— Dombey and Son • Charles Dickens


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