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Dissuasion

noun

A communication that dissuades you.

Persuading not to do or believe something; talking someone out of a belief or an intended course of action.

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"Dissuasion" Quotes from Famous Books

... tendency has been to commend his wares, if not to excess, at any rate with no want of generosity. Everyone must have noticed it. But war changes many things besides Cabinets, and if the paper famine is to continue there will shortly be a totally novel kind of advertising to be seen, where dissuasion holds the highest place. For unless something happens those journals which have already done much to reduce circulation will have to do more and actually decry themselves. Such counsels as those which follow may before long meet the eyes, and, it is ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, June 20, 1917 • Various

... was not a bad woman; her dissuasion of Francis I. from undertaking war with Solyman II. against Charles V. is one instance of the use of her influence in the right direction. By some historians, she is accused of having played the traitress, in the interest of Emperor Charles V., during the war of ...

— Women of Modern France - Woman In All Ages And In All Countries • Hugo P. Thieme

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