Deters
Proper noun
Meaning
Deters (plural Deterses)
A surname.
Deters
plural of Deter
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Examples
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.
A visible police presence on the streets is the best means we have of reassuring communities throughout Scotland. We know too that high visibility policing deters criminals.
A decent government with an effective, but not gratuitously violent, police force and a fair court system are essential. This deters and incapacitates psychopaths, bullies and hotheads - and if it earns the confidence of the people, they don't have to become violent in self-defence.
There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, although my personal observation is that not one of the criminals who have been executed over the years has ever killed again.
Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.