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dissuading

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Verb

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dissuading

  1. present participle and gerund of dissuade

Noun

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dissuading (plural dissuadings)

  1. A dissuasion.
    • 1933, James Truslow Adams, Henry Adams:
      It might have been a good thing if he had, unsuited as he was physically, but the mood passed easily under fraternal dissuadings and a feeling of duty toward his father.