cogencyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

cogency (countable and uncountable, plural cogencies)

1. The state of being cogent; the characteristic or quality of being reasonable and persuasive.
   • 1781, Samuel Johnson, “Addison”, in Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets, volume 5, London: J. Nichols, page 156:

     All the enchantment of fancy, and all the cogency of argument, are employed to recommend to the reader his real interest.

   • 1928 Oct, Richard McKeon, “Thomas Aquinas' Doctrine of Knowledge and Its Historical Setting”, in Speculum, volume 3, number 4, page 444:

     A philosophic study of the development of philosophies should be content to seek out the bases and cogencies of philosophies rather than engage upon a nostalgic search for sympathetic doctrines.

参照

• Noah Webster (1828), “cogency”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language: […], volume I (A–I), New York, N.Y.: […] S. Converse; printed by Hezekiah Howe […], →OCLC.
• “cogency”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “cogency”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
• Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996)