Definition of Dissuasiveness

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Dissuasiveness

disspirit
disspirited
disspiriting
disspirits
dissuade
dissuaded
dissuader
dissuaders
dissuades
dissuading
dissuasion
dissuasions
dissuasive
dissuasively
dissuasiveness (current term)
dissuasory
dissunder
dissundered
dissundering
dissunders
dissyllabic
dissyllabification
dissyllabifications
dissyllabize
dissyllabized
dissyllabizes
dissyllabizing
dissyllable
dissyllables

Literary usage of Dissuasiveness

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

1. The Woman in the Rain: And Other Poems by Arthur Stringer (1907)
"... As fire eats clean the autumn mountain-side; For all this sweet sad-eyed dissuasiveness Endears like dew the flower of final love! ..."

2. Snapshots from the North Pacific by W. Ridley (1904)
"... of dissuasiveness. She said, ' 'Tis madness;' they said, ' You ought not to think of such a thing.' She said, ' Don't go ; " they said, ' Wait a little ..."

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