Both Uses of
dissuade
in
The War of the Worlds
- But the artilleryman dissuaded me: "It's no kindness to the right sort of wife," he said, "to make her a widow"; and in the end I agreed to go with him, under cover of the woods, northward as far as Street Cobham before I parted with him.†
Chpt 1.12 *
- They dissuaded me.†
Chpt 2.9
Definition:
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(dissuade) persuade someone not to do something