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dissuasion|dɪˈsweɪʒən|
[ad. L. dissuāsiōn-em, n. of action f. dissuādēre to dissuade; or perh. a. F. dissuasion (14th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).]
The action, or an act, of dissuading; advice or exhortation against something; dehortation.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (1531) 289 But to this false disswasyon, it is soone answered. 1549Coverdale Erasm. Par. Ephesians Prol., With slaunderous dissuasions, & perplexe impertinent interpretations. 1597Bacon (title), A Table of Coulers, or apparances of good and euill, and their degrees as places of perswasion and disswasion. 1647Cowley Mistress, Counsel iv, Ev'n thy Dissuasions me persuade. 1823De Quincey Lett. Educ. i. (1860) 8 This chapter..is a dissuasion from Herder. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola i. xiii, He had not the courage to utter any words of dissuasion. 1868Browning Ring & Bk. xii. 100 But for the dissuasion of two eyes..He had abstained, nor graced the spectacle.
†b. The condition of being dissuaded; a persuasion of the opposite. Obs.
1553Bale Gardiner's De Vera Obed. (ed. 3) A v, He runneth post haste into a contrarye Dissuasion. |