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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

COGENCY, n. Force; strength; power of compelling; literally, urgency, or driving. It is used chiefly of moral subjects, and in relation to force or pressure on the mid; as the cogency of motives or arguments.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: persuasive relevance
2: the quality of being valid and rigorous [syn: cogency, validity, rigor, rigour]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1667 the quality or state of being cogent

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cogency Co"gen*cy, n. [See Cogent.] The quality of being cogent; power of compelling conviction; conclusiveness; force. An antecedent argument of extreme cogency. --J. H. Newman.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see cogent

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Force, strength, power, conclusiveness, convincingness, convincing power, persuasiveness, potency.

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