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Definition of Encourages
1. encourage [v] - See also: encourage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Encourages
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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