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 2deter = try to prevent; or prevent
- But these breaks did not deter him.†
Chpt 8 *