单词 | dissuasion |
释义 | dissuasionn. a. The action, or an act, of dissuading; advice or exhortation against something; dehortation. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > demotivation > [noun] > dissuasion dissuasion1526 dehortation1529 dehorting1553 dissuading1580 expostulating1592 expostulation1592 devitation1614 dehortment1656 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. giii But to this false disswasion, it is soone answered. 1549 J. Olde in M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Ephes. Prol. sig. .iiv With slaunderous dissuasions, & perplexe impertinent interpretacions. 1597 F. Bacon (title) A table of coulers, or apparances of good and euill, and their degrees as places of perswasion and disswasion. 1647 A. Cowley Counsel in Mistress iv Ev'n thy Dissuasions me persuade. 1823 T. De Quincey Lett. Young Man in London Mag. Jan. 85/2 This chapter..is a dissuasion from what Herder..calls Die Authorschaft. 1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. xiii. 226 He had not the courage to utter any words of dissuasion. 1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. IV. xii. 201 But for the dissuasion of two eyes..He had abstained, nor graced the spectacle. ΚΠ 1553 J. Bale tr. S. Gardiner De Vera Obedientia A v He runneth post haste into a contrarye Dissuasion. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1526 |
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