Definition of Deters

1. Verb. (third-person singular of deter) ¹

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Definition of Deters

1. deter [v] - See also: deter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Deters

deterrable
deterration
deterrations
deterred
deterrence
deterrences
deterrent
deterrent example
deterrently
deterrents
deterrer
deterrers
deterring
deterritorialization
deterritorializations
deters (current term)
detersion
detersions
detersive
detersively
detersiveness
detersives
detest
detestability
detestable
detestableness
detestably
detestation
detestations
detested

Literary usage of Deters

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

1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1822)
"His work u so replete with all the beauties we had anticipated, that the fear of baring it imputed to ourselves, alone deters us from enriching our columns ..."

2. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1913)
"This is not a case of a purchaser who, without any agreement or connivance with the defendant in execution, deters bidders by falsely representing that he ..."

3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1901)
"The British view was that the liability to capture of private property afloat deters nations from going to war and impels them to bring wars to a close, ..."

4. The History of the Roman Emperors: From Augustus to Constantine by Jean Baptiste Louis Crévier, John Mills (1814)
"A violent storm deters an army of Scythians from attacking the Romans. empire, months. A new scene, still more tragical and bloody, opens upon us now. ..."

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