Dissuade
[dɪ'sweɪd] or [dɪ'swed]
Definition
(verb.) turn away from by persuasion; 'Negative campaigning will only dissuade people'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To advise or exhort against; to try to persuade (one from a course).
(v. t.) To divert by persuasion; to turn from a purpose by reasons or motives; -- with from; as, I could not dissuade him from his purpose.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Turn from a purpose, divert by persuasion.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See PERSUADE]
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Definition
v.t. to advise against: to try to divert from anything by advice or persuasion: to succeed in persuading not to.—ns. Dissuā′der; Dissuā′sion.—adj. Dissuā′sive tending to dissuade.—n. that which tends to dissuade.—adv. Dissuā′sively.—n. and adj. Dissuā′sory (rare).
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Examples
- I was firmly convinced that he ought not to marry you--therefore I tried to dissuade him by all the means in my power. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- My guardian did not seek to dissuade me, and I went. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- No one interfered to encourage or dissuade. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I tried to dissuade her ladyship from facing the severity of the weather. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- And then, luckily, I caught Father Grady, and I've asked him in to speak to them, and dissuade them from going off in a body. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The company tried to dissuade her--it was so terribly cold. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Henry wished to dissuade me; but, seeing me bent on this plan, ceased to remonstrate. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- He might be dissuaded, I should think. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But Sam was not to be dissuaded from the poetical idea that had occurred to him, so he signed the letter-- 'Your love-sick Pickwick. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Many of the crowd would have dissuaded him from touching a document so suspicious; but Higg was resolute in the service of his benefactress. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- You are to understand, Miss Bennet, that I came here with the determined resolution of carrying my purpose; nor will I be dissuaded from it. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- He wrote forever dissuading us from such a course. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- It is an affectation, indeed, not very common among merchants, and very few words need be employed in dissuading them from it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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