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Discourage   /dɪskˈərɪdʒ/   Listen
Discourage

verb
(past & past part. discouraged; pres. part. discouraging)
1.
Try to prevent; show opposition to.  Synonym: deter.
2.
Deprive of courage or hope; take away hope from; cause to feel discouraged.  Antonym: encourage.
3.
Admonish or counsel in terms of someone's behavior.  Synonyms: admonish, monish, warn.  "I warn you against false assumptions" , "She warned him to be quiet"



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"Discourage" Quotes from Famous Books



... a little uncertainly, but looking very well. "I think I shall discourage my friends from coming to this region for their health," he said, ruefully. "If I were a novelist now all this would be grist for ...
— The Forester's Daughter - A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range • Hamlin Garland

... felt less a sister than a second mother, and gave her freely of her abundant maternal reservoir. That "little sister" had at times sulked under this proud determination to assist in the bringing-up of the last of the Ballinger-Groomes, did not discourage her. She might be soft in her affections but she never swerved from her duty as she saw it. Alexina was a darling wayward child, who only needed a firm hand to guide her along that proud secluded old avenue of the city's ...
— The Sisters-In-Law • Gertrude Atherton

... turning round towards us and saying something which, according to Piper, had reference to their tribe coming again and dancing a corrobory, a proposal these savage tribes often make and which the traveller who knows them well will think it better to discourage. ...
— Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Vol 2 (of 2) • Thomas Mitchell

... responded the sitter. "For instance, it is absolutely true that I had a father. His name wasn't Wilfred, it was James. And he died before I was born. But don't let that discourage you. I can prove his existence. The other true thing was the corker. I've been to fifty-seven varieties of mediums in the course of this experiment, and you're the first to jump at the widest opening I gave. I am a physician. I've put iodoform on my handkerchief ...
— The House of Mystery • William Henry Irwin

... remain loyal. It truthfully asserted that California's influence in the Federal Union should be an example for other states to follow. If the idea of a Pacific Republic were repudiated by their own citizens, such action would discourage secession elsewhere and be a great moral handicap to that movement. And the press further pointed out with convincing clearness, that should the Union be dissolved, the project for a Pacific Railroad[19] with which the future ...
— The Story of the Pony Express • Glenn D. Bradley


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