Dissuaded [verb]

General Augusti was personally inclined to capitulate, but was dissuaded from doing so by his officers.

Valence seems to have been ready to accept Bruce's challenge, but to have been dissuaded by his Scots friends.

Kashkin was one of the friends who dissuaded Tchaikovsky from composing Mandragora.

The mediocrities allow themselves to be dissuaded by the specious obstacles—the great ones never.

It was only after some difficulty that he was dissuaded from the attempt.

Most of his English counsellors dissuaded him from accepting conditions so disadvantageous and dishonorable.

When I told Andrea, he insisted on coming with me, and although I painted the danger in lively colours he would not be dissuaded.

Such was the blended truth, irony, and wit with which Héloïse dissuaded Abélard from open marriage.

She was more than the guardian of his interests; she was his faithful friend, who dissuaded him from follies.

Even the old hunters who were familiar with the ground dissuaded him and predicted the failure of his enterprise.