Dehortative

Dehortative
Dehortative De*hort"a*tive, a. Dissuasive. [R.] [1913 Webster]

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  • dehortative — index remonstrative Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • dehortative — a.; (also dehortatory) Dissuasive …   New dictionary of synonyms

  • dehortative — dehorˈtative or dehorˈtatory adjective Dissuasive • • • Main Entry: ↑dehort …   Useful english dictionary

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  • dehort — dehortation /dee hawr tay sheuhn/, n. dehortative, dehortatory /di hawr teuh tawr ee, tohr ee/, adj., n. dehorter, n. /di hawrt /, v.t. Archaic. to try to dissuade. [1525 35; < L dehortari to dissuade, equiv. to de DE + hortari to urge (hor(iri)… …   Universalium

  • remonstrative — I adjective admonitive, admonitory, argumentative, censorious, contentious, corrective, critical, dehortative, dehortatory, demurring, deprecative, deprecatory, discouraging, disputatious, dissuasive, enjoining, expostulatory, exprobrative,… …   Law dictionary

  • forbéodendlic — adj dehortative, dissuasive …   Old to modern English dictionary

  • mistihtendlic — adj dehortative …   Old to modern English dictionary

  • dehortatory — a. See dehortative …   New dictionary of synonyms

  • monitory — adj admonitory, monitive, warning, cautionary, dehortative; dissuasive, deterrent, discouraging; recommendatory, hortative, prescriptive, consultative, advisory; instructive, informative, directive, exemplary; deprecatory, expostulative,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

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