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I do appear to you, to tell him of it, and to advise and dehort him from his evil ways.— Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects
This duke hath too many followers in our days: say what you can, dehort, exhort, persuade to the contrary, they are no more moved,--_quam si dura, silex aut stet Marpesia cautes_, than so many stocks, and stones; tell them of heaven and hell, 'tis to no purpose, laterem lavas_, they answer as Ataliba that Indian prince did friar Vincent, [6637]"when he brought him a book, and told him all the mysteries of salvation, heaven and hell, were contained in it: he looked upon it, and said he saw no such matter, asking withal, how he knew it:" they will but scoff at it, or wholly reject it.— The Anatomy of Melancholy
‘Exhort’ remains; but ‘dehort’ a word whose place neither ‘dissuade’ nor any other exactly supplies, has escaped us {154}.— English Past and Present
_money_ might not _dehort_ us, yet the _wounding_ of our _mindes_ should _deterre_ us. '— The Bibliotaph and Other People
And when any of my friends, (saith he) impart their business to me, if this voice happens, it dissuades also, giving me the like counsel: whereupon, I dehort him who adviseth with me, and suffer him not to proceed in what he is about, following the divine admonition.— Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects
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