Dissuaded
[dɪ'sweɪdid]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Dissuade
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Examples
- 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.
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