Synonyms for cogency:
noun effectiveness
Examples of uses:
These do not lack cogency, but betray a kind of thought different from that of the friends.
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Title: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 4, author: Various, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41055/41055-h/41055-h.htm
But, like all oft-repeated truths, it has in time lost something of its actuality and cogency.
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Title: The Poison Belt, author: Arthur Conan Doyle, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/126/126-h/126-h.htm
This is the thought which underlies and gives cogency to the whole argument.
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Title: The Roman Poets of the Republic, author: William Young Sellar, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/48323/48323-h/48323-h.htm
What it can do, it does with a sharpness of effect and with a cogency of appeal no other art can rival.
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Title: A Book About the Theater, author: Brander Matthews, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/36790/36790-h/36790-h.htm
Weismann's demand for facts in support of the main proposition revealed at once that none having real cogency could be produced.
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Title: Evolution in Modern Thought, author: Ernst Haeckel, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22430/22430-h/22430-h.htm
For the cogency of the proof in every instance depended upon the absence of explanation.
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Title: Evolution in Modern Thought, author: Ernst Haeckel, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22430/22430-h/22430-h.htm
With what closeness and unanswerable cogency he would maintain truth!
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Title: Discourse of the Life and Character of the Hon. Littleton Waller Tazewell, author: Hugh Blair Grigsby, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16906/16906-h/16906-h.htm
cogency of argument is almost invariably lost in the vehemence of declamation and in the utterance of unmeaning patter.
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Title: The Hindoos as they Are, author: Shib Chunder Bose, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/37722/37722-h/37722-h.htm
But though I have attended to the suggestions contained in his paper, I am unable to see the cogency of his arguments.
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Title: Hours of Exercise in the Alps, author: John Tyndall, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/47209/47209-h/47209-h.htm
This kind of evidence, however, presents much less cogency than is usually supposed.
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Title: Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume II (of 3), author: George John Romanes, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/37759/37759-h/37759-h.htm
