单词 | encouragement |
释义 | encouragementn. The action or process of encouraging, the fact of being encouraged (see senses of the verb); concrete a fact or circumstance which serves to encourage. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > courage > encouragement > [noun] fosteringc1230 comfortingc1320 recomforting1487 emboldening1503 emboldishment1512 heartening1534 encouragement1550 encouraging1578 flushing1775 inspiriting1846 leaveway1913 the mind > emotion > courage > encouragement > [noun] > the fact of being encouraged hearting1544 encouragement1550 the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > support or encouragement > [noun] comfort?c1225 encourage1535 encouragement1550 comfortation1552 countenance1576 cover1581 couragement1603 patronage1610 abettance1781 championship1840 moral support1852 fautorship1863 affirmation1966 the mind > emotion > courage > encouragement > [noun] > a fact or circumstance that encourages encouragement1700 boost1825 pull-up1872 morale booster1959 morale boost1975 1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War ii. xviii. f. lxix The othere rulers, through the requeste & incouraigement of the Megariens, wolde assaye to take the port of Athens. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 257 King Edward purposyng a lyke encouragement of noble and worthie knightes. 1598 J. Dickenson Greene in Conceipt 43 For his more incoragement veweing in his mistris countenance, no cloudes of discontent. 1638 Ld. Goring in Hamilton Papers (1880) 65 What encouragement whatever those ill affected with you may gather. 1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 62 To the Incouragement of the Iron, and Iron Manufactures. 1699 Ld. Shaftesbury Inq. conc. Virtue ii. ii. 132 Natural Deformity growing greater by the incouragement of unnatural Affection. 1700 J. Wallis in C. R. L. Fletcher Collectanea (1885) I. 319 This riding~master went hence, finding little or no encouragement, of any desirous to learn. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson Introd. sig. d2 Such employments could not long be wanting, if due incouragement were given to them. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth vi, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 160 The wooer had begun to hold the refusal of the damsel as somewhat capricious..after the degree of encouragement, which, in his opinion, she had afforded. 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 186 [Plato] gives no encouragement to individual enthusiasm. 1883 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 11 569 The object of the society being the encouragement of saving. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1550 |
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