Word Meanings - DEHORTATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Dissuasion; advice against something.
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- ADVICE
Counseling to perform a specific illegal act. Wharton. Advice boat, a vessel employed to carry dispatches or to reconnoiter; a dispatch boat. -- To take advice. To accept advice. To consult with another or others. Syn. -- Counsel; suggestion; - AGAINSTAND
To withstand. - SOMETHING
1. Anything unknown, undetermined, or not specifically designated; a certain indefinite thing; an indeterminate or unknown event; an unspecified task, work, or thing. There is something in the wind. Shak. The whole world has something - AGAINST
1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in - DISSUASION
1. The act of dissuading; exhortation against a thing; dehortation. In spite of all the dissuasions of his friends. Boyle. 2. A motive or consideration tending to dissuade; a dissuasive. - MISADVICE
Bad advice.