Word Meanings - ACCOURAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To encourage.

Related words: (words related to ACCOURAGE)

• ENCOURAGER
  One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer. The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts. Addison.
• ENCOURAGEMENT
  1. The act of encouraging; incitement to action or to practice; as, the encouragement of youth in generosity. All generous encouragement of arts. Otway. 2. That which serves to incite, support, promote, or advance, as favor, countenance, reward,
• ENCOURAGE
  To give courage to; to inspire with courage, spirit, or hope; to raise, or to increase, the confidence of; to animate; enhearten; to incite; to help forward; -- the opposite of discourage. David encouraged himself in the Lord. 1 Sam. xxx. 6. Syn.
• REENCOURAGE
  To encourage again.
• DISENCOURAGEMENT
  Discouragement. Spectator.