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Definition of Dehorting
1. dehort [v] - See also: dehort
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dehorting
Literary usage of Dehorting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Horæ Sinicæ: Translations from the Popular Literature of the Chinese by Robert Morrison (1812)
"... A DISCOURSE dehorting FROM EATING BEEF, Delivered under the Person of an Ox.* "
I request, good people, that you will listen to what I have to say. ..."
2. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1813)
"... and in perfect silliness we know nothing equal to the ' Discourse dehorting
from eating Beef, delivered under the Person of an Ox.' Yet the influence of ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1813)
"... and in perfect silliness we know nothing equal to the ' Discourse dehorting
from eating Beef, delivered under the Person of an Ox.' Yet the influence of ..."
4. Shakspere's Predecessors in the English Drama by John Addington Symonds (1900)
"commotions, and insurrections, to present them with the flourishing estate of
such as live in obedience, exhorting them to allegiance, dehorting them from ..."
5. The Lives of the Chief Justices of England by John Campbell Campbell, Joseph Arnould (1881)
"Upon these grounds I am as clear in dehorting your Lordship from attendance in
Court to deliver a single judgment, as from continuing to subject your brain ..."
6. The Gentleman's Magazine (1854)
"The fallen Wolsey is dehorting Cromwell from the fault by which he himself has
forfeited his happiness. Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition; ..."
7. Letters to Severall Persons of Honour by John Donne (1910)
"... dehorting those fixed devotions: But I had rather it were bestowed upon
thanksgiving then petition, upon praise then prayer; not that God is ..."
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