Dehort

Quick meaning: Dehort is a verb meaning (transitive, rare or obsolete) To dissuade.

Meaning

(transitive, rare or obsolete) To dissuade.

Example Sentences

Croker dehorts me from visiting Ireland, from which I do not need much dehortation, considering the aspect in that miserable country.

And thus much for the ſecond thing conſiderable in the Dehortation; namely, the Thing we are therein dehorted from, which is, that mean, ſordid, and degrading Vice of Covetouſneſs.

Behold I haue opened vnto you the woorkes of darkneſſe, which you muſt caſt of, nowe I will geue you the armour of light, which you muſt put on, I haue dehorted you, and I hope thorowly diſſuaded you from labouring for the meate that periſheth: […]

[…] I prove the Lords Supper is no converting Ordinance; for if it were. 1. How dare any Miniſter ſeriouſly dehort any unworthy perſon from approaching to it? May we forbid ſinners to uſe the means of their converſion, eſpecially if they be ſuch as are not excommunicated nor caſt out of the Church, and do deſire to receive the Sacrament?

Word Forms

• dehorts
• dehorting
• dehorted

Antonyms for dehort

Common opposites include encourage, exhort, persuade, urge.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include discomfort, discourage, disadvise, deter, disheart, dispurpose.

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