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  • verb Present participle of dehort.

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  • If those who abolish laws, governments, and polices of men subvert and destroy human life, and if Metrodorus and Epicurus do this, by dehorting and withdrawing their friends from concerning themselves in public affairs, by hating those who intermeddle in them, by reviling the first most wise lawgivers, and by advising contempt of the laws provided there is no fear and danger of the whip punishment.

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • So the apostle, Eph.iv. 25-29, dehorting them from many lusts and sins, gives this as the great motive of it, verse 30, "Grieve not the Holy Spirit, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption."

    Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers 1616-1683 1967

  • All which particulars put together, viz. the quality of the person dehorting us, the nature of the thing he dehorts us from, and the certainty of the remedy he advises us to, make it disputable, whether we are to take the words of the text as the absolute command of a legislator, or the endearing counsel of a friend.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III. 1634-1716 1823

  • And thus much for the first thing to be considered in the dehortation; namely, the person dehorting, who was

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III. 1634-1716 1823

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