Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Dissuasion

Dissuasion , noun

[Latin dissuasio: compare French dissuasion. See Dissuade.]

1.
The act of dissuading; exhortation against a thing; dehortation.
In spite of all the dissuasions of his friends. — Boyle
2.
A motive or consideration tending to dissuade; a dissuasive.