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Dehort   Listen
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Dehort  v. t.  (past & past part. dehorted; pres. part. dehorting)  To urge to abstain or refrain; to dissuade. (Obs.) "The apostles vehemently dehort us from unbelief." ""Exhort" remains, but dehort, a word whose place neither "dissuade" nor any other exactly supplies, has escaped us."






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"Dehort" Quotes from Famous Books



... seen by me, yet I would not therefore have any man to think, that my primary Scope, and intention, is to perswade the worthy, or unworthy Sons of this Age, to labour in this work, no, not at all: but I shall rather dehort all, and every of the curious Indagators of this Art, that they seriously abstain from this most perilous Arcanum, as from a certain Sanctum Sanctorum; yea, and I would admonish the Studious of this Arcanum, ...
— The Golden Calf, Which the World Adores, and Desires • John Frederick Helvetius



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