dehort

[dih-hawrt]

verb (used with object)

Archaic.

1. to try to dissuade.

Other Word Forms

• dehortation noun
• dehortative adjective
• dehortatory adjective
• dehorter noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of dehort¹

1525–35; < Latin dēhortārī to dissuade, equivalent to dē- de- + hortārī to urge ( hor ( īrī ) to urge + -t- frequentative suffix + -ārī infinitive suffix)

Example Sentences

Dehort, de-hort′, v.t. to exhort from, to dissuade.—n.

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In Catholic Brittany, even in the last centuries, the bishop in vain attempted to dehort his flock from the worship of an idol of stone.

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‘If the wasting of our money might not dehort us, yet the wounding of our mindes should deterre us.’

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Observing she was learned, and knew so well the duties of life, I turned my arguments rather to dehort her from this public procedure by examples, than precepts.

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Thus that admirable saint and martyr, Bishop Hooper, when he came to die, one endeavored to dehort him from death by this: O sir, consider that life is sweet and death is bitter; presently he replied, Life to come is more sweet, and death to come is more bitter, and so went to the stake and patiently endured the fire.

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