Cogency is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for COGENCY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the state of being cogent, also COGENCE
• the quality of being clear, logical, and convincing; lucidity
• The quality of being cogent; power of compelling conviction; conclusiveness; force.
• persuasive relevance
• the quality of being valid and rigorous

Words related to COGENCY

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How to use COGENCY in a sentence

• Force, strength, power, energy, vigor, might, potency, cogency, efficacy.
• In its stead we have collected a great number of inferences of very various degrees of cogency, from the possible and hypothetical, up to strong and very strong probability.
• I must talk a little about him before drawing my final conclusions about the cogency of the arguments for the absolute.
• The arguments of a sociological novel lack cogency unless the characters are fairly representative of average mankind.
• If those have now lost some of their cogency, we still stand by our action as having been justifiable in the execution of our duty.
• I shall not, however, dwell upon this theme since it has been well treated by several modern writers, and with special cogency by the Rev.
• The statement of Hilary illustrates the peculiar cogency of the argumentation employed by the defenders of the faith who flourished about the close of the second century.
• In other words, the conclusions of reflective thought must be judged by following the process and discovering its cogency or the reverse.
• No doubt most people feel justified in believing that the whole doctrine of evolution must stand or fall according to the cogency of the palaeontological evidences.
• Some of these reasons are not far to seek, but their cogency can scarcely be appreciated until we have examined the concrete facts of the whole biological series.
• For the cogency of the proof in every instance depended upon the absence of explanation.
• They gave a cogency to the Article, which had escaped me at first.
• Nor could I with any cogency have brought this as an argument against the Church of England, for the Church of England has retained Confession, nay, Sacramental Confession.
• He was positive, forceful, and insistent in driving home his argument and in compelling his superior to admit their force and cogency.
• Together with an infinite brilliance of these resources there is not only no weakness in cogency of form, but there is a rare unity of design.
• But, like all oft-repeated truths, it has in time lost something of its actuality and cogency.
• For closeness of reasoning, for clearness of expression, for the wealth of knowledge and cogency of argument these are the most remarkable of his political writings.
• Innumerable madmen make no difference to the laws of thought, which borrow their authority from the inward intent and cogency of each rational mind.
• An old woman in a blonde wig, a dirty hand covered with jewels, ostentation without dignity, rhetoric without cogency, all offend by an inner contradiction.
• It fell in well enough with that love of emotional issues, that want of soberness and want of cogency, which is so characteristic of modern philosophers.
• Adams was snoring, convinced rather by the length than the cogency of the reasoning.
• The latter gentlemen have added to the cogency of their arguments by a practical demonstration.

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