Both Uses of
deter
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- "Why," began the elder, "all these sentences to exile with hard labor, and formerly with flogging also, reform no one, and what's more, deter hardly a single criminal, and the number of crimes does not diminish but is continually on the increase.†
Chpt 2
- But these breaks did not deter him.†
Chpt 8 *
Definition:
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(deter) try to prevent; or prevent