dehortatory
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin dehortatorius.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
dehortatory (comparative more dehortatory, superlative most dehortatory)
- Fitted or designed to dehort or dissuade.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dehortatory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)