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Definition of Dissuading
1. dissuade [v] - See also: dissuade
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dissuading
Literary usage of Dissuading
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"TO THOMAS PAINE, dissuading HIM FROM PUBLISHING A CERTAIN WORK. I HAVE read your
manuscript with some attention. By the argument it contains against a ..."
2. The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England by John Campbell Campbell (1845)
"His letter to Buckingham, dissuading the match. His letter to King on same sub-
ject. and their mother who ruled them, — but most highly alarming to Bacon. ..."
3. Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York by John Romeyn Brodhead, Berthold Fernow, Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, New York (State). Legislature (1881)
"... dissuading them every time and making them presents of wampum. lie complains,
that, when he comes here, the Dutch pull him by the ears and call him an ..."
4. Polynesian Researches During a Residence of Nearly Eight Years in the by William Ellis (1853)
"... code—Reasons for dissuading from capital punishments—Omission of oaths—Remarks
on the different enactments—Subsequent amendments and enactments relative ..."
5. A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanors by William Oldnall Russell (1877)
"... AND dissuading A WITNESS FROM GIVING EVIDENCE. It is said that generally the
giving of money to a juror after the verdict, witho^'"' any precedent ..."
6. A Digest of the Criminal Law (crimes and Punishments) by James Fitzjames Stephen (1887)
"CONSPIRACY TO DEFEAT JUSTICE—dissuading WITNESSES FROM TESTIFYING. Every one
commits a misdemeanor who (a.) 3 Conspires with any other person to accuse any ..."
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