Psychagogic

Related to Psychagogic: reckon, shabbily

Psy`cha`gog´ic


a.1.Attractive; persuasive.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Despite his edifying, psychagogic rhetoric, despite his 'youthful' enthusiasm, and his hope for transmogrifying spiritual ideals, it is undeniable that there is an identifiable undercurrent in his essays of skepticism about these very ideals, an occasional glimpse of what could, somewhat anachronistically, be designated as a haunting nihilistic possibility.
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