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/dɪswˈeɪd/ Listen

verb

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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dissuade" Quotes from Famous Books

... against his putting in for me, and urged every reason to dissuade him from it that I ...

— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) • Various

... I can remember how narrowly he watched us and how, when he attempted to laugh at our objections, his voice cracked into shrill falsetto, under pressure of his excitement. I would have argued with him, explained, tried to dissuade him, but Jasper scorned my temporizing and would have had none of it. His sense of justice blazed high within him and his words leaped forth, a very avalanche of scorn and wrath. Anthony heard him through without replying, then turned on his heel and ...

— The Windy Hill • Cornelia Meigs

... party left the house in Colquhoun Street, and drove to the railway station. It consisted of Mr. Fordyce the lawyer, the minister of the parish, Walter Hepburn, and Gladys. It was her own desire that she should go, and they did not think it necessary to dissuade her. She was a sincere mourner for the old man, and he had not so many that they should seek to prevent that one true heart paying its last tribute to his memory. So for the first time for many years the burying-ground of the Bourhill Grahams was opened, somewhat to the astonishment ...

— The Guinea Stamp - A Tale of Modern Glasgow • Annie S. Swan

... and as he was preparing himself to the part, it happened that he fell in company and speech with certain Scottish men, who having understanding of his intention, and wishing well to his actions, began earnestly to dissuade him from the further prosecution of the discovery by amplifying the dangers which he was to fall into, and omitted no reason that might ...

— The Discovery of Muscovy etc. • Richard Hakluyt

... friends of the fair one are in much pain for the sufferings she goes through from the perseverance of this hero; but they may be much more so from the danger of his succeeding, toward which they give him a helping hand, if they dissuade her with bitterness; for there is a fantastical generosity in the sex, to approve creatures of the least merit imaginable, when they see the imperfections of their admirers are become the marks of derision for ...

— The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 • George A. Aitken

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