Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Dissuasive; dehortatory.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Dissuasive.
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- adjective
dissuasive
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Examples
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But the words of the Apostle (it will be said) are exhortative and dehortative.
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820
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