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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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Etymology of 'Cogent'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... severely condemned; strong objections are taken to our view of the Bible-documents in general, to our account of the Canon of the Gospels, to our estimate of the Fourth Gospel." To these criticisms Arnold might have added one yet more cogent. It was felt by many of his readers, and even by some of his most attached disciples, that the "sinuous, easy, unpolemical method" which he vaunted, and which he applied so happily to criticism of books and life, was not grave enough, or cogent enough, when applied to the criticism of Religion. ...

— Matthew Arnold • G. W. E. Russell

... outbursts on the dark side of the moon. The persistent recurrence, indeed, of similar appearances under circumstances less amenable to explanation inclined Webb to the view that effusions of native light actually occur.[929] More cogent proofs must, however, be adduced before a fact so intrinsically improbable can be ...

— A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century - Fourth Edition • Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke

... a long time; I fought off their invitation as well as I could: I couldn't bear thus to quarter myself upon utter strangers. But they both were so pressing, and brought up so many cogent arguments why I couldn't go alone to the one village saloon—a mere whisky-drinking public-house, they said, of very bad character,—that in the long run I was fain almost to acquiesce in their kind plan for my temporary housing. Besides, after my horrid ...

— Recalled to Life • Grant Allen

... unspoken but cogent—passed between them; so that for the first time a pretty colour tinted the girl's cheeks. She suddenly ...

— Brood of the Witch-Queen • Sax Rohmer

... especially had not joined the party without cogent reasons, for the mirth in the first long wagon, covered with a linen tilt, was ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

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