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Definition of Dissuaders
1. dissuader [n] - See also: dissuader
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dissuaders
Literary usage of Dissuaders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Contemporary Review (1871)
"... much as photography has done for the world, the best thing it had ever
accomplished was these photographs, as they are such potent dissuaders from war. ..."
2. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1875)
"The gathered mass heaved itself over the CHAP, brow, carrying all the dissuaders
along with it, and •—^—• tearing pell-mell down ..."
3. The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1876)
"Bat when my dissuaders heard what I had to say, their opposition was changed into
encouragement. (§§ 17—23.) Advice on great and pressing questions is more ..."
4. The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1893)
"But when my dissuaders heard what I had to say, their opposition was changed into
encouragement (§§ 17-23). Advice on great and pressing questions is more ..."
5. The Complete Angler, Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse by Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1833)
"The neighbourhood of Bethnal Green is seldom without a public house with a sign
representing the Beggar, and the dissuaders of the match, dropping gold; ..."
6. Memoirs of the Life and Times of Sir Christopher Hatton, K. G.: Including by Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas (1847)
"But I was fain to stand to it that I was one of the dissuaders, and would not
for anything, for the little proof I had of this day's journey, ..."
7. The Early Tudors: Henry VII.: Henry VIII. by Charles Edward Moberly (1906)
"... of wool to Holland and Zealand on some notion that Maximilian's grandson
Charles had affronted him. Well had the war justified its dissuaders, and, ..."
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