Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or an instance of dissuading.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of dissuading; advice or exhortation in opposition to something; diversion or an attempt to divert from a purpose or measure by advice or argument; dehortation.
- noun A dissuasive influence or motive; a deterring action or effect.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of dissuading; exhortation against a thing; dehortation.
- noun A motive or consideration tending to dissuade; a dissuasive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the act or an instance of
dissuading
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun persuading not to do or believe something; talking someone out of a belief or an intended course of action
- noun a communication that dissuades you
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word dissuasion.
Examples
-
Instead those caught with drugs for personal use are sent to so-called "dissuasion boards" consisting of social workers and psychologists who question users on their drug habit and have the power to impose fines or recommend treatment.
Drug death 'capital' Brighton to put treatment ahead of punishment 2011
-
Instead those caught with drugs for personal use are sent to so-called "dissuasion boards" consisting of social workers and psychologists who question users on their drug habit and have the power to impose fines or recommend treatment.
Drug death 'capital' Brighton to put treatment ahead of punishment 2011
-
Controversial when it was first introduced almost a decade ago, the move has turned possession into an "administrative offence", which sends those caught with drugs for personal use to a so-called dissuasion board rather than having them prosecuted.
Britain looks at Portugal's success story over decriminalising personal drug use 2010
-
"You are a chap!" said Constance, and warmed only slowly from the idea of dissuasion to the idea of help.
Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story Herbert George 1909
-
"You ARE a chap!" said Constance, and warmed only slowly from the idea of dissuasion to the idea of help.
-
That two youths, of the respective ages of eighteen and twenty, should have conceived for themselves a totally independent and sincere method of study, and enthusiastically persevered in it against every kind of dissuasion and opposition, is strange enough; that in the third or fourth year of their efforts they should have produced works in many parts not inferior to the best of Albert
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859
-
That two youths, of the respective ages of eighteen and twenty, should have conceived for themselves a totally independent and sincere method of study, and enthusiastically persevered in it against every kind of dissuasion and opposition, is strange enough; that in the third or fourth year of their efforts they should have produced works in many parts not inferior to the best of Albert
On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859
-
Trafficking was still criminal, but possession was made subject to no more serious a penalty than a police citation and "dissuasion," which as a practical matter means treatment.
-
Trafficking was still criminal, but possession was made subject to no more serious a penalty than a police citation and "dissuasion," which as a practical matter means treatment.
-
An important Socratic Dialogue in which Plato sets the rhetorician, whose specialty is persuasion, in opposition to the philosopher, whose specialty is dissuasion, or refutation.
Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.