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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of dehort.

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Examples

  • Riches of the World, may be seen in the first Poem of his Book, speaking of the inestimable content he enjoyed in the Muses, to those of his friends which dehorted him from Poetry.

    The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley

  • "I am confident my Lord Goring may be serviceable to your Excellence in many respects, and therefore have rather encouraged him in this his resolution, than any ways dehorted him from it; and especially because he is to pass by the Spanish Court, where he hath such habitudes, by reason of the service both his father and he hath done that crown."

    Notes and Queries, Number 35, June 29, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various 1852

  • Third and last thing to be considered in the dehortation; which is, the way and means whereby we are taught to avoid the thing we are thus dehorted from.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III. 1634-1716 1823

  • And thus much for the second thing considerable in the dehortation; namely, the thing we are therein dehorted from, which is that mean, sordid, and degrading vice of covetousness: the nature of which I have been endeavouring to make out, both negatively, by shewing what it is not; and positively, by shewing what it is, and wherein it consists.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III. 1634-1716 1823

  • Second thing to be considered in it, to wit, the thing we are dehorted from, which is covetousness.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III. 1634-1716 1823

  • But because conscience is a relative term, and so must refer to something which it is to be conversant about, I shall shew, that men are commanded a subjection to, and dehorted from a resistance of the civil magistrate, by two things.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III. 1634-1716 1823

  • The way how we are dehorted from it; Take heed and beware, 306.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III. 1634-1716 1823

  • The thing we are dehorted from, covetousness, 293. by which is not meant a prudent forecast and parsimony, 294. but an anxious care about worldly things, attended with a distrust of Providence, 295. a rapacity in getting, 298. by all illegal ways, 301. a tenaciousness in keeping,

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III. 1634-1716 1823

  • That he was of a free generous disposition, not regarding at all the Riches of the World, may be seen in the first Poem of his Book, speaking of the inestimable content he enjoyed in the Muses, to those of his friends which dehorted him from Poetry.

    The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698 1687

  • For, while the contest and struggle continued between the mind and the flesh, how much soever they might nill the evil to which the flesh incited them, and will the good from which it dehorted them; yet they do not proceed onward to the deed itself except when the battle is terminated, the mind or conscience is overcome, and after the will has yielded consent to the flesh -- though such consent be not without stinging remorse of conscience.

    The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2 1560-1609 1956

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