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Definition of Encouragement
1. Noun. The expression of approval and support.
Specialized synonyms: Abetment, Abettal, Instigation, Cheering, Shouting, Advancement, Furtherance, Promotion, Fosterage, Fostering, Goad, Goading, Prod, Prodding, Spur, Spurring, Urging, Incitement, Provocation, Vote Of Confidence
Antonyms: Discouragement
2. Noun. The act of giving hope or support to someone.
Generic synonyms: Aid, Assist, Assistance, Help
Specialized synonyms: Morale Booster, Morale Building
Derivative terms: Boost, Encourage
3. Noun. The feeling of being encouraged.
Definition of Encouragement
1. n. The act of encouraging; incitement to action or to practice; as, the encouragement of youth in generosity.
Definition of Encouragement
1. Noun. The act of encouraging; incitement to action or to practice; as, the encouragement of youth in generosity. ¹
2. Noun. That which serves to incite, support, promote or advance, as favor, countenance, reward etc.; incentive; increase of confidence; as, the fine arts find little encouragement among a rude people. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Encouragement
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Encouragement
Literary usage of Encouragement
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1892)
"But the encouragement and protection of American manufactures by a wise imposition
of duties would stop all this, dispel the gloom, and raise the nagging ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"'Ihis is especially true of judicial astrology, which, however, by its constant
encouragement of fatalistic views unsettles the belief in a Divine ..."
3. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899)
"G. * See, on Zoroaster's encouragement of agriculture, the ingenious remarks of
... encouragement ..."
4. Household Manufactures in the United States, 1640-1860: A Study in by Rolla Milton Tryon (1917)
"2 THE COLONIES' POLICY OF encouragement During all the time that Parliament was
busy legislating to bring about the success of England's antiquated ..."
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