dissuasion
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A phone call, as you’ve learned, can be a difficult medium to have emotional dissuasions over.
From Slate • Jun. 18, 2019
A British detachment, under Major-General Sir Robert Barker, attended him to the Korah frontier, where the General repeated, for the last time, the unwelcome dissuasions of his Government.
From Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan by Keene, H. G. (Henry George)
A––– and his party had started for Kef, malgré my dissuasions.
From Notes in North Africa Being a Guide to the Sportsman and Tourist in Algeria and Tunisia by Windham, W. G.
Scarcely had he gone, when the mother began her dissuasions, and from that moment there was misery.
From The Crown of Life by Gissing, George
The dissuasions of Cristofano being thus added to the little desire that Vasari had to stay there, they went off together.
From Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol 07 (of 10) Tribolo to Il Sodoma by Vasari, Giorgio
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