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encouragement definition

en·cour·age·ment (-mənt)

noun

  1. an encouraging or being encouraged
  2. something that encourages

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encouragement Synonyms

encouragement

n.

  1. The act of encouraging

    urging, prodding, reassuring, reassurance, assuring, heartening, animating, abetment, abetting, backing, support, buoying up, cheering, solacing, motivating, supporting, helping, boosting, building up, rallying, inspiriting, egging on.

  2. That which encourages

    aid, help, assistance, support, cheer, confidence, trust, faith, advance, promotion, reward, reassurance, incentive, motivation, stimulus, inducement, backing, animation, optimism, comfort, consolation, hope, fortitude, firmness, boost, pat on the back*, lift*, shot in the arm*, pep talk*, good omen.


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encouragement Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • terrorism: That, in any ordinary meaning, would plainly be encouragement of terrorism.

Possessives

  • mother: His mother's encouragement was instrumental in his interest in the countryside, especially its traditions, folklore and antiquities.

Converse of object

  • shout: Thanks to everyone who worked on it, made tea or shouted encouragement.

Adjective modifier

  • judicious: It is clear that Munby J did not regard himself as needing to enter into a Thomas v Thomas exercise of judicious encouragement.

Noun used with modifier

  • offering: Act as a critical friend toward the school offering encouragement, constructive criticism and the benefit of appropriate professional skills and experience.
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encouragement quotes

Why does one never hear of government funding for the preservation and encouragement of comic strips, girlie magazines and TV soap operas? Because these genres still hold the audience they were created to amuse and instruct.

-Updike,John Hoyer

To my daughter Leonora without whose never-failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been finished in half the time.

-Plum

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