English translation of "consternara sus demandas" - "discouraged their demands"

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168 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	Spanish > English
Subject:	Sciences / Non-fiction books
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	consternara sus demandas
Context:	Pilate observó horrorizado que el resultado final de su resolución era un endeble...
Keywords:	...condenado vestido con un disfraz de rey, con el casco de espinas fijado a la cabeza por la numerosa sangre producida y con el rostro irreconocible de golpes y vilezas. ¿Serían capaces, los judíos, de permanecer indiferentes ante el aspecto de aquel Hombre? Acaso ahí descansaba la última oportunidad para lograr que el cónclave del enlosado consternara sus demandas.

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168 months ago

Margarita Viada wrote:

discouraged their demands

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168 months ago

wrote:

discourage or turn down? I'm finding the Spanish in this book highly odd. Really. So many questions with so much text and none of its seems very kosher. The meaning here is clearly: to turn down or reject demands.

168 months ago

Margarita Viada wrote:

Not quite the same, Jane. Consternar has a sense of reduce support (or dismay). This is an old usage of the language. Best of lucks

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