coaxing

Verb

Present participle of coax.

Noun

(plural coaxings)

The act of one who coaxes.
After innumerable coaxings and threats, he agreed to do it.

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They danced over the keys, coaxing beautiful sound from each one.
Retiring Sheriff Jake Weller was coaxing him over for a roadside chat.
This arouses his spirit of contradiction; and he tells them that they might have won it from him by coaxing, but never by threats, and that he values his life no more than the stone he tosses away as he speaks to them.
It is amusing to observe the extreme care and deliberation with which the bird draws the worm from its hidingplace, coaxing it out as it were by degrees, instead of pulling roughly or breaking it.
Some of the species grow better when altogether taken out of the soil and fixed to blocks of wood, but in this case they require a little coaxing with moss about the roots until they get established.

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