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English
Etymology
Synchronically validly portrayable as either (1) by surface analysis, di- + sway, in direct morphologic parallel with dissuade, or (2) an eggcorn of dissuade; diachronically perhaps now unknowable (as to which of those was the word's historical origin). It is true that (1) dissuade is the much more common word, and (2) disway is not entered in most major dictionaries; and these facts may lend support to the idea that the eggcorn idea is likelier diachronically, and certainly to the idea that most lexicographers consider it likelier.
Verb
disway (third-person singular simple present disways, present participle diswaying, simple past and past participle diswayed)
- Synonym 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.