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Deterrent   /dɪtˈərrənt/   Listen
Deterrent

adjective
1.
Tending to deter.



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"Deterrent" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the arsenical should be added; or, better yet, Bordeaux mixture should be employed as a diluent instead of water. This mixture has some insecticidal value, is a most valuable fungicide, and is also a powerful deterrent of flea-beetle attack, acting to a less degree against other insects which are apt to be found on the tomato. In applying any spray a sprayer costing not less than $7 is a ...
— Tomato Culture: A Practical Treatise on the Tomato • William Warner Tracy

... others were veterans like Hornigold himself. They were the best of the lot, but for the most part the assemblage was made up of the sweepings of the town, men who had the willingness to do anything no matter how nefarious it might be, their only deterrent being lack of courage. Hornigold's single eye swept over them with a fierce gleam of contempt, yet these were they with whom he must work ...
— Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer - A Romance of the Spanish Main • Cyrus Townsend Brady

... could make the journey in considerably less time, but it was the season for the well-known monsoons of the Indian Ocean, and it was quite unlikely that they would be able to wing their way across the fourteen hundred odd miles of sea without encountering some of these deterrent trade-winds. ...
— Around the World in Ten Days • Chelsea Curtis Fraser

... case of punishment for criminals he would similarly devote his efforts not to the abrogation of punishments, but to the relinquishment of any that are not reformatory, or really deterrent. ...
— The Unexpurgated Case Against Woman Suffrage • Almroth E. Wright

... sanction or convenience. Such a being might murder one of the ratepayers of London, compound a felony, or enter into a conspiracy to depose the King himself, and, being detected, very properly be put under restraint, or visited with chastisement, either deterrent or vindictive, or both. But the true inference from the premises would be that although duress or banishment from the kingdom might be essential, yet punishment, so-called, ought not to be visited ...
— Lore of Proserpine • Maurice Hewlett



Words linked to "Deterrent" :   diriment impediment, preventive, albatross, difficulty, millstone, straitjacket, drag, obstacle, bind, deterrence, deter, obstruction, hindrance, preventative



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