Dehortation

//diːˌhɔːˈteɪʃən// noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Advice against something; dissuasion. archaic, uncountable, usually

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From Latin dehortatio (“dissuasion”).

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