Dehortatio (de-hor-ta’-ti-o): Dissuasion.
If you keep doing that you’ll get warts on your hand and everybody will know what you’ve been doing.
Do you want that to happen?
You better quit.
Definition courtesy of “Silva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu).
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