She caused her own monument to be placed over one of the most remarkable gates of the city, with an inscription, dissuading her successors from touching the treasures laid up in it, without the most urgent and indispensable necessity.
You must endeavour to prevent his wrong, either by revealing the thing, or dissuading from it, or by such means as prudence shall tell you are the meetest, by exercising your love to one, without doing wrong to the other.
Also persuading sinners to do evil, and dissuading them from a godly life, is another way of murdering souls.
Still dissuading said Nokomis: "Bring not to my lodge a stranger From the land of the Dacotahs!
I encouraged her in this idea, dissuading her from any criminal attempts, and assured her over and over again that she should not find her trust in me misplaced.
Before we rose from table I had declared my intention of sending Manon's portrait to her husband on the day following, but her good nature found a way of dissuading me from doing so without much difficulty.
Thereafter many powerful men spoke, and all were at last agreed in dissuading from hostilities.
Thereafter each of the kings spoke according to his own mind some dissuading from going out against King Olaf, others urging it; and no determination was come to, as each had his own reasons to produce.
Morgan said the ordinance of Parliament made it treason to fight for the King; but this assertion sounded so oddly, that he hurried to the next count, which was, his dissuading Ralph Jobson from taking the Covenant.
Tertullian, according to Lecky, had written a treatisedissuading the Christians of his day from frequenting the public spectacles.
Tertullian, his mode of dissuading Christians from frequenting public spectacles, 54; ideas of justice and mercy in his day, 55.
A tumult, however, arose; many people saying that she was a false prophet, and that she would bring ruin on the citizens by dissuading them from escaping with their goods to places of greater security.
Then he led him on his way for many miles, earnestly dissuading him from going into the world; and so they parted, with many tears.
The Delaware chiefs immediately visited the Prophet, for the purpose of dissuading him from commencing hostilities.
This deputation was present for the purpose of dissuading the Indians from joining the Prophet.
Whether I did right in dissuading you from coming to London this spring, I will not determine.
William, perceiving it was useless to attempt dissuading his brother from his purpose, accompanied him in silence to the spot where Bob Smithers and two friends already waited.
With these words the old traveller closed his tale, and after dissuading me from death, departed whither he would.
The story of the crow dissuading the birds from making the owl king is Jataka, No.
I'm not obliged to; and you've rather succeeded in dissuading me.
Then let me succeed in dissuadingyou from everything.
His finger was hovering over the bell, when the Broker's dissuading voice arrested it.
He held up a dissuading hand, as the other would have spoken.
The instant that Gammon had seen the stone take effect, he rushed over towards where Mr. Delamere stood amid his agitated friends, who were dissuading him from persevering in his attempt to address the crowd?
His comrade unhappily addicted himself still to his old way of thinking, and instead of dissuading him from his purpose, seemed pleased that he had taken such a resolution.
The Ordinary also joined in dissuadingthem from thus misspending the last moments of their lives, which were through the mercy of the Law extended to them for a better purpose.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dissuading" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
