All 3 Uses of
dissuade
in
Bleak House
- He immediately began to spend all the money he had in buying the oddest little ornaments and luxuries for this lodging; and so often as Ada and I dissuaded him from making any purchase that he had in contemplation which was particularly unnecessary and expensive, he took credit for what it would have cost and made out that to spend anything less on something else was to save the difference.†
Chpt 16-18
- My guardian did not seek to dissuade me, and I went.†
Chpt 52-54 *
- I assured him it was no matter, but the driver, who knew him, would not be dissuaded by me from running down the street to his stable, whence he brought an armful of clean dry straw.†
Chpt 58-60
Definition:
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(dissuade) persuade someone not to do something