This indeed is not to exhort, but to dissuade and dehort by. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2] Reference
John, xvii. 15, dehort us from; love not the world, nor the things that are in the world: if any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him, 16. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
Observing she was learned, and knew so well the duties of life, I turned my arguments rather to dehort her from this public procedure by examples, than precepts. From Wordnik.com. [The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899] Reference
Sons of this Age, to labour in this work, no, not at all: but I shall rather dehort all, and every of the curious Indagators of this Art, that they seriously abstain from this most perilous Arcanum, as from a certain Sanctum. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Calf, Which the World Adores, and Desires] Reference
If they see a man melancholy given, solitary, averse from company, please himself with such private and vain meditations, though he delight in it, they ought by all means seek to divert him, to dehort him, to tell him of the event and danger that may come of it. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
He says: "I dehort mine from Christmas keeping and charge them to forbear.". From Wordnik.com. [Customs and Fashions in Old New England] Reference
I do appear to you, to tell him of it, and to advise and dehort him from his evil ways. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects] Reference
Thirdly, that they that exhort and dehort, where they are required to give counsel, are corrupt counsellors and, as it were, bribed by their own interest. From Wordnik.com. [Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill] Reference
And when any of my friends, (saith he) impart their business to me, if this voice happens, it dissuades also, giving me the like counsel: whereupon, I dehort him who adviseth with me, and suffer him not to proceed in what he is about, following the divine admonition. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects] Reference
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