disway

English

Verb

disway (third-person singular simple present disways, present participle diswaying, simple past and past participle diswayed)

  1. Eggcorn of dissuade.
    • 1970, Ram Naresh Trivedi, Report on a comparative study of the working of traditional and statutory panchayats in the tribal areas of Ranchi District, page 68:
      On many occasions, such non-tribal men are seriously beaten by the tribals, both to disway the non-tribal males from pursuing the intimacy and also to prevent the recurrence of such occurrence in future.
    • 2010, Sharon Balts, The Protector, →ISBN, page 161:
      No amount of command from me could disway Meade from his evil purpose of drawing Sir Thomas Blackaby into a sword fight.
    • 2013, D. Avraham, The Foundation Stone, →ISBN:
      Yishai, though grudgingly, recognized that the elders would not be diswayed.
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