Definitions for dissuasion

dissuasion dis·sua·sion

Spelling: [dih-swey-zhuh n]
IPA: /dɪˈsweɪ ʒən/

Dissuasion is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 285 anagrams from letters in dissuasion (adiinosssu).

Definitions for dissuasion

noun

  1. an act or instance of dissuading.

Origin of dissuasion

1520-30; Latin dissuāsiōn- (stem of dissuāsiō) a speaking against, equivalent to dissuās(us) (past participle of dissuādēre; dissuād- (see dissuade) + -tus past p

Examples for dissuasion

In no other way does the will in any respect owe anything to my advice or dissuasion.

Latimer slipped out of bed in search of a weapon of dissuasion.

Persuasion or dissuasion strike me as being equally serious in their results.

He vouchsafed no explanation, and Clem, though heavy-hearted with anxiety, asked no questions and attempted no dissuasion.

This work shall save the labour of exhorting and dissuasion.

As I said above, I have nothing to say against it—no persuasion or dissuasion—you will do as you please.'

The queen, who had shared in the loot of a good many such expeditions, might have acquiesced but for Burghley's dissuasion.

Will Allerton lived in Chicago; that was a second count against him, but equally futile as a valid argument for dissuasion.

He studied divinity, and only the dissuasion of friends kept him from entering the ministry.

This was a step which needed a vast deal of dissuasion on the part of his generals ere he relinquished his mad attempt.

Word Value for dissuasion
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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