encourage
verb (used with object), en·cour·aged, en·cour·ag·ing.
Origin of encourage
Synonyms for encourage
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Contemporary Examples of encouraging
These (roughly) $2,500 ceremonies are supposedly about encouraging “positive feelings” on the part of the single brides.
Branch helped women feel beautiful by encouraging them to embrace their natural selves as she had.
Goodbye To A Natural Hair Guru: Miss Jessie's Cofounder Titi Branch Dead At 45Danielle Belton
December 16, 2014
Not about encouraging aspiring butchers to live out their violent fantasies in Syria.
Encouraging any victim of crime to come forward makes us all safer.
Once an event begins, staffers get the party going, encouraging kids to “Rage,” then film it, post it, dream it goes viral.
FinnaRage Wants You to Rage at Its Parties. So What if It Ends Up a Riot?Melanie Plenda
October 27, 2014
Historical Examples of encouraging
Sometimes when they called their conduct was anything but encouraging.
Ester Ried Yet SpeakingIsabella Alden
The food difficulty we met by encouraging unofficial imports.
With Manchesters in the EastGerald B. Hurst
And everybody turned towards the old man, pressing him and encouraging him.
L'AssommoirEmile Zola
Did he even send them an encouraging message—a word of fellowship?
The Macdermots of BallycloranAnthony Trollope
"The Beethoven's fine," said Margaret, who was not a female of the encouraging type.
Howards EndE. M. Forster