But the words of the Apostle (it will be said) are exhortative and dehortative.
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Dehortative
//diːˈhɔːtətɪv//
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He was plainly oblivious of the dehortative mandate, ' Let us not do evil that good may come,' and appeared to have no dread of the 'just damnation' of those who do it.
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This text, which underscored the communal and dehortative dimensions of Puritan elegy, was immediately followed by the miracle of the feeding, a biblical analogy to the elegiac swerve from death to renewed life.
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Many elegies contain stylized accounts of peaceful deaths that offered a dehortative contrast to the grief-stricken panic of the living.
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