Conceal vs Deter - What's the difference?
conceal | deter |
(lb) To hide something from view or from public knowledge, to try to keep something secret.
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed .
To prevent something from happening.
To persuade someone not to do something; to discourage.
* 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. ยง 10.
As verbs the difference between conceal and deter
is that conceal is (lb) to hide something from view or from public knowledge, to try to keep something secret while deter is to prevent something from happening.conceal
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(deterr)- we have in following enquiry, attempted to throw some light upon subjects, from which uncertainty has hitherto deterred the wise