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Definition of Encouragements
1. encouragement [n] - See also: encouragement
Lexicographical Neighbors of Encouragements
Literary usage of Encouragements
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Great Commission: Or, The Christian Church Constituted and Charged to by John Harris, William R. Williams (1858)
"While it is admitted, therefore, as an axiom in Christian morals, that encouragements
to duty do not form the ground of our obedience, yet when such ..."
2. The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life by Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1829)
"V. Precepts, encouragements, and Examples. The word of God is full of precepts,
encouragements, and examples, tending to excite and induce the people of God ..."
3. The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life by Jonathan Edwards, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1829)
"V. Precepts, encouragements, and Examples. The word of God is full of precepts,
encouragements, and examples, tending to excite and induce the people of God ..."
4. Essays on the Punishment of Death by Charles Spear (1845)
"encouragements. Extent of the proposed reform—Punishment of Death sustains ...
encouragements are necessary to carry forward every reform. ..."
5. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1874)
"encouragements TO FAITH.*—This elegant little volume is properly represented by
... alike the claims of God and the promises of * encouragements to Faith. ..."
6. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1874)
"encouragements TO FAITH.*—This elegant little volume is properly represented by
the title. Mr. Kimball is already somewhat known among our readers, ..."
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