disencouragement
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From dis- + encouragement.
Noun
[edit]disencouragement (countable and uncountable, plural disencouragements)
- (obsolete) discouragement
- 1712 July 21 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “THURSDAY, July 10, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 443; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume V, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
- to the Disencouragement and Ruin of those who trade in the same Way.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “disencouragement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)