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Dissuasion

noun
1.
A communication that dissuades you.
2.
Persuading not to do or believe something; talking someone out of a belief or an intended course of action.





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"Dissuasion" Quotes from Famous Books



... discovery Of golden lands. Leoni's younger brother Went likewise, and when he returned to Spain, He told Leoni, that the poor mad youth, Soon after they arrived in that new world, In spite of his dissuasion, seized a boat, And all alone, set sail by silent moonlight Up a great river, great as any sea, And ne'er was heard of more: but 'tis supposed, He lived and ...
— Lyrical Ballads 1798 • Wordsworth and Coleridge
... had accompanied us to the Brambles. "The poor dear things wanted change of air!" Flurry had decided; and in spite of my dissuasion, all the fair waxen creatures and their heterogeneous wardrobe had been consigned ...
— Esther - A Book for Girls • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... been guilty of dishonor. Such were her anxiety and her fear of injustice falling upon her lover, the girl would have it that she must go to Jerusalem with Appius. She would neither be turned away nor bear with dissuasion. Her brother told her not of the bitter message of Augustus, and, fearing the wiles of the Jewish prince, determined to take her with him. So, therefore, as the sun rose on the nones of November in that year of the birth of Jesus, they set out with ...
— Vergilius - A Tale of the Coming of Christ • Irving Bacheller
... F of F—B this quotation is used in the laudanum scene, just before Level's (Woodville's) long speech of dissuasion. ...
— Mathilda • Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
... young man to know my position in the house. Was it possible he did not wholly trust him? My hands trembled from the machine and I was about to turn and give my full thought to what I had to say. But pride checked the impulse. "No," I muttered in quick dissuasion, to myself. "He must see that I can do two things at once and do both well." And so I went ...
— The Mayor's Wife • Anna Katharine Green


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