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persuade verb To plead with, urge. [DARE labels this usage “especially South Midland”]

1931 Hannum Thursday April 83 Thursday April persuaded Joe to buy him a fiddle. Joe fussed and fumed at such fritter-mindedness and said it was a sight of nonsense, but in the end he traded a man from Turkey Cove a lean pig for a fair instrument. 1939 Hall Coll (Bradley Fork NC) A man of that country tried to persuade me back, that they’d buy me a farm and give it to me if I’d go back.