dehort
Americanverb (used with object)
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Origin of dehort
1525–35; < Latin dēhortārī to dissuade, equivalent to dē- de- + hortārī to urge ( hor ( īrī ) to urge + -t- frequentative suffix + -ārī infinitive suffix)
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Dehort, de-hort′, v.t. to exhort from, to dissuade.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Thirdly, that they that Exhort and Dehort, where they are required to give Counsell, are corrupt Counsellours, and as it were bribed by their own interest.
From Leviathan by Hobbes, Thomas
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