Definition of Dehorting

1. Verb. (present participle of dehort) ¹

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Definition of Dehorting

1. dehort [v] - See also: dehort

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dehorting

dehorn
dehorned
dehorner
dehorners
dehorning
dehorns
dehors
dehort
dehortatio
dehortation
dehortative
dehortatory
dehorted
dehorter
dehorters
dehorting (current term)
dehorts
dehubbing
dehull
dehulled
dehuller
dehullers
dehulling
dehulls
dehumanisation
dehumanisations
dehumanise
dehumanised
dehumanises
dehumanising

Literary usage of Dehorting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Horæ Sinicæ: Translations from the Popular Literature of the Chinese by Robert Morrison (1812)
"... A DISCOURSE dehorting FROM EATING BEEF, Delivered under the Person of an Ox.* " I request, good people, that you will listen to what I have to say. ..."

2. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1813)
"... and in perfect silliness we know nothing equal to the ' Discourse dehorting from eating Beef, delivered under the Person of an Ox.' Yet the influence of ..."

3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1813)
"... and in perfect silliness we know nothing equal to the ' Discourse dehorting from eating Beef, delivered under the Person of an Ox.' Yet the influence of ..."

4. Shakspere's Predecessors in the English Drama by John Addington Symonds (1900)
"commotions, and insurrections, to present them with the flourishing estate of such as live in obedience, exhorting them to allegiance, dehorting them from ..."

5. The Lives of the Chief Justices of England by John Campbell Campbell, Joseph Arnould (1881)
"Upon these grounds I am as clear in dehorting your Lordship from attendance in Court to deliver a single judgment, as from continuing to subject your brain ..."

6. The Gentleman's Magazine (1854)
"The fallen Wolsey is dehorting Cromwell from the fault by which he himself has forfeited his happiness. Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition; ..."

7. Letters to Severall Persons of Honour by John Donne (1910)
"... dehorting those fixed devotions: But I had rather it were bestowed upon thanksgiving then petition, upon praise then prayer; not that God is ..."

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