- Dehortative
- Dehortative De*hort"a*tive, a. Dissuasive. [R.] [1913 Webster]
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Dehortative
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dehortative — index remonstrative Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
dehortative — a.; (also dehortatory) Dissuasive … New dictionary of synonyms
dehortative — dehorˈtative or dehorˈtatory adjective Dissuasive • • • Main Entry: ↑dehort … Useful english dictionary
Hortative — The hortative (abbreviated hort, pronounced /ˈhɔrtətɪv/ ( listen)) is a group of semantically similar deontic moods in some languages, especially English. Hortative moods encourage or urge. There are seven hortative moods in English: the… … Wikipedia
dehort — dehortation /dee hawr tay sheuhn/, n. dehortative, dehortatory /di hawr teuh tawr ee, tohr ee/, adj., n. dehorter, n. /di hawrt /, v.t. Archaic. to try to dissuade. [1525 35; < L dehortari to dissuade, equiv. to de DE + hortari to urge (hor(iri)… … Universalium
remonstrative — I adjective admonitive, admonitory, argumentative, censorious, contentious, corrective, critical, dehortative, dehortatory, demurring, deprecative, deprecatory, discouraging, disputatious, dissuasive, enjoining, expostulatory, exprobrative,… … Law dictionary
forbéodendlic — adj dehortative, dissuasive … Old to modern English dictionary
mistihtendlic — adj dehortative … Old to modern English dictionary
dehortatory — a. See dehortative … New dictionary of synonyms
monitory — adj admonitory, monitive, warning, cautionary, dehortative; dissuasive, deterrent, discouraging; recommendatory, hortative, prescriptive, consultative, advisory; instructive, informative, directive, exemplary; deprecatory, expostulative,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
