disway
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disway (third-person singular simple present disways, present participle diswaying, simple past and past participle diswayed)
- Eggcorn of dissuade.
- 1970, Ram Naresh Trivedi, Report on a comparative study of the working of traditional and statutory panchayats in the tribal areas of Ranchi District, page 68:
- On many occasions, such non-tribal men are seriously beaten by the tribals, both to disway the non-tribal males from pursuing the intimacy and also to prevent the recurrence of such occurrence in future.
- 2010, Sharon Balts, The Protector, →ISBN, page 161:
- No amount of command from me could disway Meade from his evil purpose of drawing Sir Thomas Blackaby into a sword fight.
- 2013, D. Avraham, The Foundation Stone, →ISBN:
- Yishai, though grudgingly, recognized that the elders would not be diswayed.