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dissuade(dictionary)
dissuade(dictionary)

dissuade (iou)



dissuade verb. L15.
[Latin dissuadere, formed as DIS- 2 + suadere advise, persuade. Cf. French dissuader.]
verb trans. & intrans. Advise or urge (a person) against. (Foll. by from (an action etc., doing).) Now rare. L15.
V. Woolf The more she dissuaded, the more he was determined to go.
verb trans. Give advice against, discourage, (an action etc.). Now rare. E16.
J. Stephen His..friends anxiously dissuaded a journey so full of peril.
verb trans. Deflect (a person) by persuasion or influence (from (an action etc., doing)). L16.
A. Hopkins A crowd of anxious nannies trying to dissuade a capricious child from going too far.
dissuader noun a person who or thing which dissuades M16.