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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It is a mighty discourager of great undertakings.
From The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance by John Turvill Adams
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
Oh, Belford, the virtue of this world is a great discourager of repentance.
From Old Friends, Epistolary Parody by Andrew Lang
“Dig up, you venerable discourager of rising young talent!”
From Martin Eden by Jack London
