Meaning of dehortative | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Anything that serves to dissuade; a disincentive or discouragement.
2. A syntactic marker, word, or phrase that indicates a dehortative sense.

Examples

“My father taking me to see Dr. Raine, Master of the Charter House, the doctor, who was very kind and pleasant, but who probably drew none of our deductions in favour of the young writer's abilitites, warned me against the perils of authorship; adding, as a final dehortative, that " the shelves were full."”

“There can, it is submitted, be no question that the prestige of a trial in Westminster Hall, before one of the ermined Quindecemviri, with the pomp and circumstance of a jury, a large inquisitive crowd, a row of reporters, eager to notify to a hundred towns every backsliding of a witness, are appliances to morality, dehortatives of perjury wanting in County Courts.”

“Referring to this admonition, he says, in another part of the preceding letter, "I hope you got (naming the poem) back in safety, and have softened my dehortative to the ingenious, and, I am persuaded, amiable author.”

“One might almost say that the whole thing was an allurement instead of a dehortative from metaphysics.”

“The dehortative is essentially a negative imperative in most cases, but can be used with all persons in the sense of 'should not', 'must not' or 'let not'.”

“An example of a context where a dehortative may be acceptable with an adjective is with mate 'die, be dead'.”

“The only spontaneous instance of a dehortative recorded is the one in (20-47) below.”

“Mbi is also used as a dehortative instead of the negative re: ko mbi tegi ― don't cry ( for ko tegi re); ko mbi la — don't do it.”

“As indicated in example (10), the renown ^([sic]) young environmentalist, Greta Thunberg, uses the dehortative don't want you to for the apparent purpose of seeking to discourage the US political representatives from accepting her environmental discourse of climate change. The real function of the dehortative is, however, to strengthen the exhortative want you to, which is meant to attract the listeners' attention in order to urge them to manifestly support the scientific discourse of climate change and, thereby, take immediate action.”

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