They wished to have your house left empty, but from this, for very good reasons, I dissuaded them.
That there was some, and very foul too, the testimony of men and angels would not have dissuaded the Seraph; and the event had left him most unusually grave and regretful.
Gyges, from apprehension of the event, would have persevered in his refusal; but the king could not be dissuaded from his purpose.
In spite of his youth the emperor was desirous of letting the kingdom of Judea descend to him, but was unfortunately dissuaded from his purpose by his advisers.
Nor is it at all unlikely that the courtiers and false prophets might make use of this seeming contradiction to dissuade Zedekiah from believing either of those prophets, as Josephus here intimates he was dissuaded thereby.
Marshall told me that Napoleon had been dissuaded from venturing to Havre de Grace—he believed by the queen of Holland: some idea had occurred either to him or her that he might not be fairly dealt with on the road.
When St. Francis was sending the brothers to establish the order in distant lands, he himself chose France, but was dissuaded by his friend, Cardinal Ugolin.
As I had faithfully set the Count's true interest before him, and dissuaded him from undertaking an affair of which he was by no means capable, I thought it high time to think of my own affairs.
Knowing from the letter I had read at Eggert's, that she cared much for me, I was not to be dissuaded from my intention of taking her home, either as my actual or my promised bride.
But from this they weredissuaded by one who "had sene bestiall curet be taking ane quik seik ox, and making ane deip pitt, and bureing him therin, and be calling the oxin and bestiall over that place.
She was on the point of leaving the room with this object when Mr Mountchesney entered and hearing her purpose, dissuaded her from attempting it.
He recalled the warning of Julia, who had often dissuaded him from the impending step; that warning received with so much scorn and treated with so much levity.
He consented, and they came, and after half an hour they dissuaded him from it.
While he himself," said Lord Glenvarloch, "dissuaded me from presenting myself at Court.
The Brahmans felt that the priest of the rival religion was a Jonah and wanted to land him on one of the neighboring islands but were dissuaded by a trader representing the danger that would be to all on coming to China.
The incensed queen was dissuaded by her ministers from killing him but, saying his fault lay in his feet, insisted on cutting these off, finally, however, compromising on amputating the toes.
If she had told me that she was going to leave her home, I should either have dissuaded her or gone with her, for I loved her as I do at this moment; but I would never have given her money to go alone.
Casanova threatened to have him hanged, but according to Da Ponte, wasdissuaded from this by counter accusations made by Costa.
I dissuaded a lady from attending the marriage of a sister who had seceded from the Anglican Church.
Socrates' Genius did not advise him to act or to find, but if he proposed to do somewhat not advantageous, it dissuaded him.
One spoke for all, and said, If I had not brought with me proofs of serious study, they should have dissuaded me very earnestly from a science I could not graduate in without going through practical courses of anatomy and clinical surgery.
But the other medical men dissuaded him, partly from liberality, partly from discretion: the fine would have been paid by public subscription twenty times over and nothing gained but obloquy.
As Ulysses was not to be dissuaded from his attempt, Mercury provided him with a sprig of the plant Moly, of wonderful power to resist sorceries, and instructed him how to act.
But the god of that stream inspired the reeds with harmonious murmurs that dissuaded her from venturing among the golden rams while they raged under the influence of the rising sun.
I neither advised her nor dissuaded her, but treated her like a good simple child.
Blücher, baulked of his wish to shoot Bonaparte, was with difficulty dissuadedby the protests of Wellington and Louis XVIII.
During a few halcyon days the King even proposed to assume the title Emperor of Prussia, from which, however, the Elector of Saxony ironically dissuaded him.
He was unwilling to dethrone the old emperor, and dissuaded the immediate march on Constantinople.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dissuaded" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
