What's the difference between dehort and dissuade?
Dehort
Definition:
(v. t.) To urge to abstain or refrain; to dissuade.
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Dissuade
Definition:
(v. t.) To advise or exhort against; to try to persuade (one from a course).
(v. t.) To divert by persuasion; to turn from a purpose by reasons or motives; -- with from; as, I could not dissuade him from his purpose.
Example Sentences:
(1) The day after last Monday's trial, he flew to Switzerland from East Midlands airport to try to dissuade the government there from building a new coal plant.
(2) Michael loyally accompanied his father back, although he said he had tried to dissuade him many times from returning because he did not want him to die in prison.
(3) The senior Labour MP said the issue was particularly acute because the people turning away from politics were "the people who need [to take] political action and are dissuaded from doing so".
(4) The deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov, argued that the delivery of the S-300 system had been previously agreed with the Syrian government in Damascus and would be a "stabilising factor" that could dissuade "some hotheads" from entering the conflict.
(5) Patients with Crohn's disease should be dissuaded from smoking.
(6) Obviously, workers get disheartened and reduce their demand for work even when they need it; in other cases, the state and local authorities try to dissuade them or do not register their demand because they do not have the funds to provide the required work.
(7) We were trying very hard to stick to the "not being an influence" thing, but I did try to dissuade her from the [life-size] horse!
(8) Both harangued Brian from the outset calling it "a squalid little film" and "tenth rate"; no amount of measured argument on the Pythons part would dissuade the pious double act of their firmly held belief that Life of Brian mocked Christ.
(9) However, Buckinghamshire county council, which has been co-ordinating an anti-HS2 alliance, said "there would appear to be nothing to dissuade us" from dropping a threat to seek a judicial review.
(10) Toon attempted to dissuade him from boxing by explaining its dangers.
(11) Counseling ideas for each of the categories includes approaches to encourage, ignore, dissuade or observe to categorize the belief later.
(12) This case reinforces the fact that hematologic findings should not dissuade the work-up of papular acrodermatitis for hepatitis B or other less commonly associated viruses.
(13) One of them said: “My job today is to make you go away.” Migrants reach the Serbian-Hungarian border - in pictures Read more With Orbán at the helm, Hungary’s populist Fidesz government has reacted to the summer influx by spending €100m (£73m) building a four metre razor-wire fence and launching an anti-migrant billboard campaign aimed at dissuading people from coming to the country.
(14) Fear of a Herxheimer-like reaction should not dissuade clinicians from administering antibiotics to patients with leptospirosis.
(15) Law dropped her like a stone and apologised to Miller, but not enough to dissuade her from dumping him and being branded 'Love Rat Law'.
(16) Though it is possible to list the more common complications seen for each congenital anomaly, the tedious repetitiveness of such an approach dissuaded the author.
(17) Calculations by the Austrian government, which is keen on a transaction tax, showed that even if the number of deals fell by up to 65% as the fee dissuaded people from unnecessary trades, it could still raise $700bn (£420bn) a year.
(18) That skull was buried in 1960 in the courtyard of Cromwell's old college, Sidney Sussex at Cambridge, in an unmarked spot to dissuade ghoulish souvenir hunters.
(19) The supermarkets need more funds to finance millions of pounds’ worth of price cuts, particularly on everyday basics such as milk, eggs and bread, in order to dissuade their customers from migrating to the low-cost chains.
(20) Last spring Barzani tried in vain to dissuade the US from selling F16 fighter planes to Iraq.