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What does dissuasion mean?

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Noun
  1. the act or an instance of dissuading
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He vouchsafed no explanation, and Clem, though heavy-hearted with anxiety, asked no questions and attempted no dissuasion.
Latimer slipped out of bed in search of a weapon of dissuasion.
These messages will be part of daily life and people will be surrounded by them, to such an extent that the dissuasion effect that we are counting on may crumble away.
This was a step which needed a vast deal of dissuasion on the part of his generals ere he relinquished his mad attempt.
When all reasonable attempts at dissuasion have been exhausted.
The queen, who had shared in the loot of a good many such expeditions, might have acquiesced but for Burghley's dissuasion.

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