Dissuading [verb]

He is an admirable and delightful man, but not fitted for action, and even dissuading from action.

While dissuading you from engaging in the speculation, she is visibly glad to see you investing your money in it.

I succeeded in dissuading her, as I knew he was planning to come home and they might miss each other in mid-ocean.

He was even tempted to leave his companions to follow the girl, and Ben-Zayb had difficulty in dissuading him.

The senior partner had succeeded in dissuading the junior partner from the employment of detectives.

Nor was Varney uninfluential in dissuading her from proclaiming her second marriage till occasion necessitated.

And maddened at dice, no one amongst his friends could succeed in dissuading that represser of foes from the play that went on.

He had difficulty in awakening her, and greater difficulty in dissuading her from lying down again where she was.

But let us now see whether by dissuading his friends from a vain ostentation he did not exhort them to the pursuit of virtue.

I was just trying to find some way of dissuading my husband to do such a thing again.