encourage
verbEtymology
From Middle English encouragen, encoragen, from Anglo-Norman encoragier, from Old French encoragier. Displaced native Old English hiertan, tyhtan, and trymman. By surface analysis, en- + courage.
- derived from encoragier
- derived from encoragier
- inherited from encouragen
Definitions
To mentally support
To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.
- I encouraged him during his race.
- Delia's coach encouraged her to focus on the positives.
- The visitors we do not encourage are the many small boys who slip in unobserved and are a danger to themselves and the staff.
To spur on, strongly recommend.
- We encourage the use of bicycles in the town centre.
- We encourage you to cycle instead of taking the car.
To foster, give help or patronage.
- The royal family has always encouraged the arts in word and deed.
- In addition the Marquess built a brickworks adjacent to the colliery, and also greatly improved the harbour to encourage coastal shipping.
- They remove all sense of self-responsibility from us prisoners. We have virtually no control over any aspect of our lives. This does not encourage our ability to return to community life outside.
The neighborhood
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Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at encourage. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at encourage. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at encourage
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA