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dehort

Syllables: de·hort/dɪˈhɔːt/

dehort verb: to dissuade.

Verb

dehort (third-person singular simple present dehorts, present participle dehorting, simple past and past participle dehorted)

  1. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To dissuade.
    • Behold I haue opened vnto you the woorkes of darkneſſe, which you muſt caſt of, nowe I will geue you the armour of light, which you muſt put on, I haue dehorted you, and I hope thorowly diſſuaded you from labouring for the meate that periſheth: […]1580 January 8, James Bisse, “The ii. Sermon”, in Two Sermons Preached, the One at Paules Crosse the Eight of Ianuarie 1580. The Other, at Christes Churche in London the Same Day in the After Noone...
    • […] Playes are writ with this ayme, and carryed with this methode, to teach the ſubiects Obedience to their King, to ſhew the people the vntimely ends of ſuch as haue moued tumults, commotions, and inſurrections, to preſent them with the flouriſhing eſtate of ſuch as liue in obedience, exhorting...1612, Thomas Heywood, “Of Actors, and the True Vse of Their Quality. The Third Booke.”, in An Apology for Actors. […], London: Printed by Nicholas Okes, →OCLC

dehort meaning in Tamil and Urdu

dehort in Tamil

தூண்டிவிடு

dehort in Urdu

جان چھڑوانا

Examples of dehort in a sentence

  • How dare any Miniſter ſeriouſly dehort any unworthy perſon from approaching to it?1646, George Gillespie, “Twenty Arguments to Prove that the Lords Supper is Not a Converting Ordinance”, in Aarons Rod Blossoming. Or, The...
  • And thus much for the ſecond thing conſiderable in the Dehortation; namely, the Thing we are therein dehorted from, which is, that mean, ſordid, and degrading Vice of Covetouſneſs.1727, Robert South, “Luke xii. 15.”, in Twelve Sermons Preached at Several Times, and upon Several Occasions, 4th edition, volume IV...
  • Croker dehorts me from visiting Ireland, from which I do not need much dehortation, considering the aspect in that miserable country.1825 January 7, Robert Southey, “To the Rev. Herbert Hill, &c.”, in John Wood Warter, editor, Selections from the Letters of Robert...

Antonyms of dehort

Forms of dehort

third-person singular presentdehorts
present participledehorting
past participledehorted
pastdehorted

Origin of dehort

From Latin dehortārī, present active infinitive of dēhortor (“to deter, dissuade”), from dē- (prefix indicating reversal or undoing) + hortor (“to encourage, exhort, urge”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to yearn for”)).

Words formed from dehort

Questions about dehort

What does dehort mean?
Dehort means to dissuade.
What is dehort in Tamil?
Dehort in Tamil is தூண்டிவிடு. See Dehort meaning in Tamil.
How do you use dehort in a sentence?
How dare any Miniſter ſeriouſly dehort any unworthy perſon from approaching to it?
What part of speech is dehort?
Dehort is a verb.
How do you pronounce dehort?
Dehort is pronounced /dɪˈhɔːt/ (UK).
What is the past tense of dehort?
The past tense of dehort is dehorted.

Words near dehort in the dictionary

  1. dehorners
  2. dehorning
  3. Dehornoy order
  4. dehorns
  5. dehors
  6. dehort
  7. dehortatio
  8. dehortation
  9. dehortations
  10. dehortative
  11. dehortatives

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dehort (page history and authors); dehort (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dehort (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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