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Dissuasion

noun
1.
A communication that dissuades you.
2.
Persuading not to do or believe something; talking someone out of a belief or an intended course of action.





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"Dissuasion" Quotes from Famous Books



... answer, complete answer; disproof, conviction, redargution[obs3], invalidation; exposure, exposition; clincher; retort; reductio ad absurdum; knock down argument, tu quoque argument[Lat]; sockdolager * [obs3][U. S.]. correction &c. 527a; dissuasion &c. 616. V. confute, refute, disprove; parry, negative, controvert, rebut, confound, disconfirm, redargue[obs3], expose, show the fallacy of, defeat; demolish, break &c. (destroy) 162; overthrow, overturn scatter to the winds, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
... too wise, too sympathetic, and too understanding of that clan loyalty which would deny him peace until he fulfilled his obligation, to offer arguments in dissuasion, but she stood with trouble riffles in her deep eyes until ...
— The Roof Tree • Charles Neville Buck


Words linked to "Dissuasion" :   discouragement, dissuade, communicating, communication, persuasion


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