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Influence   /ˈɪnfluəns/   Listen
Influence

noun
1.
A power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc.
2.
Causing something without any direct or apparent effort.
3.
A cognitive factor that tends to have an effect on what you do.
4.
The effect of one thing (or person) on another.
5.
One having power to influence another.  "He was a bad influence on the children"
verb
(past & past part. influenced; pres. part. influencing)
1.
Have and exert influence or effect.  Synonyms: act upon, work.  "She worked on her friends to support the political candidate"
2.
Shape or influence; give direction to.  Synonyms: determine, mold, regulate, shape.  "Mold public opinion"
3.
Induce into action by using one's charm.  Synonyms: charm, tempt.



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"Influence" Quotes from Famous Books



... skill should give a title to superior remuneration? On the one side it is argued that all who do the best they can deserve equally well; ... that superior abilities have already advantages more than enough in the admiration they excite, the personal influence they command, and the internal satisfaction attending them; and that society is bound in justice rather to make compensation to the less favoured for this unmerited inequality of advantages, than to aggravate it. On the contrary side, that society, receiving more from the more efficient ...
— Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics - With Some of Their Applications • William Thomas Thornton
... so much fatigue and unsatisfactory turmoil, that I feel I shall scarcely be articulate in what I say. Still, it must be tried, for I can't have you think that I have come to London to forget you, much less to be callous to the influence of this dear affectionate letter of yours. May God bless you! How sorry I am that you should have vexation on the top of more serious hurts to depress you. Indeed, if it were not for the other side of the tapestry, ...
— The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II • Elizabeth Barrett Browning
... they were actually two different Nations. The Effects of such a Division are pernicious to the last degree, not only with regard to those Advantages which they give the Common Enemy, but to those private Evils which they produce in the Heart of almost every particular Person. This Influence is very fatal both to Mens Morals and their Understandings; it sinks the Virtue of a Nation, and not only so, ...
— The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele
... through the influence of Lord Shelburne, a considerable pension had been granted to Colonel Barr'e, and a peerage and pension ...
— Letters of Horace Walpole, V4 • Horace Walpole
... relaxed under the influence of the powerful narcotic, the leader of the convicts removed his pipe from his mouth ...
— The Boy Chums in the Forest - or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades • Wilmer M. Ely


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