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2901 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. VALID.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Having sufficient strength or force; founded in truth; sound; just; good; that can be supported; not weak or defective; as a valid reason; a valid argument; a valid objection.
2902 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. VALIDITY.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Strength or force to convince; justness; soundness; as the validity of an argument or proof; the validity of an objection.
2903 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. VANQUISH.4 (Noah Webster)
2. To defeat in any contest; to refute in argument.
2904 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. VERBOSE.1 (Noah Webster)
VERBOSE, a. [L. verbosus.] Abounding in words; using or containing more words than are necessary; prolix; tedious by a multiplicity of words; as a verbose speaker; a verbose argument.
2905 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. VERBOSITY.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Superabundance of words; prolixity; as the verbosity of a discourse or argument.
2906 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. VIEW.20 (Noah Webster)
On a just view of all the arguments in the case, the law appears to be clear.
2907 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WARM.19 (Noah Webster)
2. To become ardent or animated. The speaker should warm as he proceeds in the argument, for as he becomes animated, he excites more interest in his audience.
2908 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WEAK.14 (Noah Webster)
12. Not having moral force or power to convince; not well supported by truth or reason; as a weak argument.
2909 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WEAK.15 (Noah Webster)
13. Not well supported by argument; as weak reasoning.
2910 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WEAKEN.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To lessen the strength of, or to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enfeeble; as, to weaken the body; to weaken the mind; to weaken the hands of the magistrate; to weaken the force of an objection or an argument.
2911 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WEAKNESS.8 (Noah Webster)
5. Want of moral force or effect upon the mind; as the weakness of evidence; the weakness of arguments.
2912 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WEIGH.18 (Noah Webster)
2. To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance. This argument weighs with the considerate part of the community.
2913 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WEIGHT.7 (Noah Webster)
5. Importance; power; influence; efficacy; consequence; moment; impressiveness; as a argument of great weight; a consideration of vast weight. The dignity of a man’s character adds weight to his words.
2914 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WEIGHTINESS.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Solidity; force; impressiveness; power of convincing; as the weightiness of an argument.
2915 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WEIGHTY.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Important; forcible; momentous; adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince; as weighty reasons; weighty matters; weighty considerations or arguments.
2916 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WHIFFLER.2 (Noah Webster)
1. One who whiffles or frequently changes his opinion or course; one who uses sifts and evasions in argument.
2917 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WIN.6 (Noah Webster)
4. To gain by persuasion or influence; as, an orator wins his audience by argument. The advocate has won the jury.
2918 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WIREDRAW.6 (Noah Webster)
4. To draw or spin out to great length and tenuity; as, to wiredraw an argument.
2919 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WISH.3 (Noah Webster)
This is as good an argument as an antiquary could wish for.
2920 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WITH.21 (Noah Webster)
Such arguments had invincible force with those pagan philosophers.