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Dissuasive   Listen
adjective
Dissuasive  adj.  Tending to dissuade or divert from a measure or purpose; dehortatory; as, dissuasive advice.





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"Dissuasive" Quotes from Famous Books



... most arrogant deification of man."(57) And Tholuck spreads out the reasoning from effect to cause, by which all things are referred to God, and God himself only made the greatest and brightest link in the chain; and assuming this to be an unanswerable argument, he holds it up as a dissuasive from all such speculations. He believes that reason necessarily ...
— A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory • Albert Taylor Bledsoe
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... publish'd" and in the same paragraph with the advertisement of 'A Representation', was another short pamphlet, 'Some Thoughts Concerning the Stage in a Letter to a Lady'. (Immediately below this notice of publication was a re-advertisement of Jeremy Collier's 'Dissuasive from the Play-House', with the result that, on the day following the Fast Day, three of the pamphlets attacking the stage and referring to the performances of plays representing tempests soon after the destructive storm ...
— Representation of the Impiety and Immorality of the English Stage (1704); Some Thoughts Concerning the Stage in a Letter to a Lady (1704) • Anonymous
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Words linked to "Dissuasive" :   dissuade, cautionary, monitory, warning, discouraging, admonitory, exemplary


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