Crossword-Solution: COGENCY 7 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

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Word Word Type Definition
Cogency n. The quality of being cogent; power of compelling
conviction; conclusiveness; force.

We have 8 clues for the answer “COGENCY”

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Convincing quality 1 answer
Logical appeal. 1 answer
Persuasive relevance 1 answer
Power to convince. 1 answer
the quality of being valid and rigorous 1 answer
persuasiveness 17 answers
Validity 24 answers
Effectiveness 43 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTAEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with COGENCY (5)

There was a certain cogency in Trilling’s attack, at least with regard to Anderson’s inferior work, most of which he wrote after Winesburg, Ohio.
Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson 1996
The great authority of Augustine, and the cogency of his scriptural argument, held the Church firmly against the doctrine of the antipodes; all schools of interpretation were now agreed--the followers of the allegorical tendencies of Alexandria, the strictly literal exegetes of Syria, the more eclectic theologians of the West.
History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom Andrew Dickson White 1996
This man shall be my future guide: I will learn his doctrines and imitate his life.” “Be not too hasty,” said Imlac, “to trust or to admire the teachers of morality: they discourse like angels, but they live like men.” Rasselas, who could not conceive how any man could reason so forcibly without feeling the cogency of his own arguments, paid his visit in a few days, and was denied admission.
Rasselas Samuel Johnson 2013
Henry’s attitude of mind; nor could I even deny there was some cogency in that which she advanced about the papers.
The Master of Ballantrae Robert Louis Stevenson 1997
SOCRATES: What do you mean? Can he be wrong who has right opinion, so long as he has right opinion? MENO: I admit the cogency of your argument, and therefore, Socrates, I wonder that knowledge should be preferred to right opinion--or why they should ever differ.
Meno Plato 1999
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Appears in: NYT, WSJ.

Used 3 times in crossword archives (1965–2008).