"cogency" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1781, Samuel Johnson, \"Addison,\" in Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets, J. Nichols (London), vol. 5, page 156",
          "text": "All the enchantment of fancy, and all the cogency of argument, are employed to recommend to the reader his real interest."
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          "ref": "1928, Richard McKeon, \"Thomas Aquinas' Doctrine of Knowledge and Its Historical Setting,\" Speculum, vol. 3, no. 4 (Oct), page 444",
          "text": "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."
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        "The state of being cogent; the characteristic or quality of being reasonable and persuasive."
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