Definition of Encourages

1. Verb. (third-person singular of encourage) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Encourages

1. encourage [v] - See also: encourage

Lexicographical Neighbors of Encourages

encounter group
encountered
encounterer
encounterers
encountering
encounters
encountre
encountrynge
encourage
encourageable
encouraged
encouragement
encouragements
encourager
encouragers
encourages
encouragest
encourageth
encouraging
encouragingly
encouragingness
encowl
encowled
encowling
encowls
encradle
encradled
encradles
encradling
encranial

Literary usage of Encourages

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1872)
"Regained, That wo will not vote for any publie officer who employs or encourages the employment or introduction among us of Chinese labor. ..."

2. English Synonymes Explained in Alphabetical Order: With Copious by George Crabb (1881)
"Every man encourages the practice of that vice which he commits in appearance, ... or the thing that encourages or incites : the encouragement of laudable ..."

3. Hunger by Knut Hamsun (1921)
"She encourages me, draws me to her by each word she speaks. I forget for a moment my poverty, my humble position, my whole miserable condition. ..."

4. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"Emerson exhorts, encourages, instructs; but the attitude of Very is different. There is a certain sternness in his verse, a flavor of absolutism, ..."

5. Life Insurance: A Textbook by Solomon Stephen Huebner (1915)
"Forces and Encourages Thrift.— Not only does life insurance render safe the insured's effort to accumulate a fund through saving by hedging him against ..."

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