Meanings
present singular third person disways · participle present diswaying · participle past diswayed · past diswayed
- Synonym of dissuade.
Yishai, though grudgingly, recognized that the elders would not be diswayed.
2013, D. Avraham, The Foundation Stone, →ISBN2 more examples
On many occasions, such non-tribal men are seriously beaten by the tribals, both to disway the non-tribal males from pursuing the intimacy and also to prevent the recurrence of such occurrence in future.
1970, Ram Naresh Trivedi, Report on a comparative study of the working of traditional and statutory panchayats in the tribal areas of Ranchi District, page 68No amount of command from me could disway Meade from his evil purpose of drawing Sir Thomas Blackaby into a sword fight.
2010, Sharon Balts, The Protector, →ISBN, page 161Synonyms: dissuade
Synonyms & antonyms
verbSynonym of dissuade.
Origin
Synchronically validly portrayable as either (1) by surface analysis, di- + sway, in direct morphologic parallel with dissuade, or (2) an eggcorn of dissuade; diachronically perhaps now unknowable (as to which of those was the word's historical origin). It is true that (1) dissuade is the much more common word, and (2) disway is not entered in most major dictionaries; and these facts may lend support to the idea that the eggcorn idea is likelier diachronically, and certainly to the idea that most lexicographers consider it likelier.
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