Dissuader

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who dissuades.

    "From all our experience on the subject, Members of Parliament have always been the dissuaders of the attempts of Dissenters; among whom an almost irrepressible impatience and disgust at their and their leaders' apathy have long existed."

Example

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"From all our experience on the subject, Members of Parliament have always been the dissuaders of the attempts of Dissenters; among whom an almost irrepressible impatience and disgust at their and their leaders' apathy have long existed."

Etymology

From dissuade + -er.

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