dissuasion
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He came to Boston when very young, and in 1772, when a clerk in a counting-house, published "A Dissuasion to Great Britain and the Colonies from the Slave-Trade to Africa."
From Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party) by Drake, Francis S. (Francis Samuel)
Dissuasion -- N. dissuasion, dehortation†, expostulation, remonstrance; deprecation &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark
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