dehortative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈhɔːtətɪv/
Forms: form: dehortatives
Senses: examples: text: 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."
ref: 1828, Leigh Hunt, Lord Byron and some of his contemporaries, page 182:
text: 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.
ref: 1850, Andrew Amos, On the Expediency of admitting the Testimony of Parties to Suits, page 80:
text: 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.
ref: 1874, Lord Henry Cockburn Cockburn, Lord Cockburn's Works, page 387:
text: One might almost say that the whole thing was an allurement instead of a dehortative from metaphysics.
ref: 1879 May 24, George Saintsbury, “Ravelais et son Œuvre. Par Jean Fleary.”, in The Academy, volume 15, page 451:
glosses: Anything that serves to dissuade; a disincentive or discouragement.
examples: text: 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'.
ref: 1996, Malcolm Ross, Studies in Languages of New Britain and New Ireland, page 270:
text: An example of a context where a dehortative may be acceptable with an adjective is with mate 'die, be dead'.
ref: 2004, R. M. W. Dixon, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Adjective Classes: A Cross-Linguistic Typology, page 273:
text: The only spontaneous instance of a dehortative recorded is the one in (20-47) below.
ref: 2008, Frantisek Lichtenberk, A Grammar of Toqabaqita, page 854:
text: 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.
ref: 2014, Sidney Herbert Ray, A Comparative Study of the Melanesian Island Languages, page 252:
text: 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.
ref: 2020, Anna Franca Plastina, Social-Ecological Resilience to Climate Change, page 22:
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glosses: A syntactic marker, word, or phrase that indicates a dehortative sense.