discourage
verb (used with object)
to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
discourager
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a word derived from
discourage.
Example Sentences
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Instead of this Is heard the mournful moan of the discourager, Portending peril, shipwreck, loss of all.
From Heart Utterances at Various Periods of a Chequered Life by Eliza Paul Gurney
Antiquity is a great discourager of the sympathies: the centuries are apt to weigh like lead on an individual human sentiment.
From True and Other Stories by George Parsons Lathrop
"Koku is a good discourager," said Mr. Swift, with a chuckle.
From Tom Swift and His War Tank, or, Doing His Bit for Uncle Sam by Victor [pseud.] Appleton
The large city, as we know it, is eminently a discourager of breadth of intelligence.
From Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages by James Joseph Walsh
Propose a small party of pleasure to an apt discourager, and see what he will make of it.
From McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey
