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Dissuade v. t. (past & past part. dissuaded; pres. part. dissuading)

To advise or exhort against; to try to persuade (one from a course). (Obsolescent) "Mr. Burchell, on the contrary, dissuaded her with great ardor: and I stood neuter." "War, therefore, open or concealed, alike My voice dissuades."

To divert by persuasion; to turn from a purpose by reasons or motives; with from; as, I could not dissuade him from his purpose. "I have tried what is possible to dissuade him."

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Etymology of 'Dissuade'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dissuade" Quotes from Famous Books

... trouble of reading, says—"In the same summer I was fallowing and preparing at considerable expense a field for wheat. Every one exclaimed at the folly of sowing wheat in that country; but finding that this would not dissuade me from my plan, one of the most respectable men in the neighbourhood told me, that 'the country' thought it a bad example to bring in new plans, and that he had himself 'declined to sow wheat, rather than get the ill-will of the people.' I said I really ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 • Various

... it, Stanley,' said Rachel, with a fierce cynicism in her low tones, 'you don't want advice; you have formed your plan, whatever it is, and that plan you will follow, and no other, though men and angels were united to dissuade you.' ...

— Wylder's Hand • J. Sheridan Le Fanu

... ought to be conducted. If a slight difference of opinion arises among them, it is easily compromised: but, if one of them differs from the rest on a vital point, it is his duty to resign. While he retains his office, he is held responsible even for steps which he has tried to dissuade his colleagues from taking. In the seventeenth century, the heads of the various branches of the administration were bound together in no such partnership. Each of them was accountable for his own acts, ...

— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 1 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... envoys leave no doubt as to the intentions of the Administration. Every possible endeavor was to be made to dissuade Colombia and Mexico from their designs upon Cuba and Porto Rico. The recognition of Hayti as an independent state was to be deprecated. In short, the status quo in the Caribbean Sea was to be maintained; ...

— Union and Democracy • Allen Johnson

... her plan to go abroad and entertain the soldiers. Polly tried to dissuade her from an even crazier scheme than ship-building, but ended by promising to telephone her husband to look into the matter of a passport ...

— The Cup of Fury - A Novel of Cities and Shipyards • Rupert Hughes

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