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Definition
try to prevent; or prevent
- "My charmer," he called her, and neither his maimed hand nor his politics deterred her ardor.p. 59.2
- Intelligence reports that the British intended to evacuate Boston at first chance did nothing to deter him.p. 88.1
There are no more uses of "deter" in 1776.
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