dissuading

English

Verb

dissuading

1. present participle and gerund of dissuade

Noun

dissuading (plural dissuadings)

1. A dissuasion.
   • 1933, James Truslow Adams, Henry Adams:

     It might have been a good thing if he had, unsuited as he was physically, but the mood passed easily under fraternal dissuadings and a feeling of duty toward his father.