Entry: assuasive (adj.)
In context: "Like all good listeners, he has a way of attending that is at once intense and assuasive, the supplicant feels both nakedly revealed and sheltered, somehow, from all possible judgment."
Definition: Soothingly persuasive; soothing.
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SNOOT score: 1
Page: 388
Source: Oxford English Dictionary
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