encourage
verb (used with object)
to inspire with courage, spirit, or confidence.
unencouraged
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a word derived from
encourage.
Example Sentences
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After which he was left undisturbed, and unencouraged, until the local milkman, who'd heard him on his morning rounds, somehow talked the family into getting the kid lessons.
From Time Magazine Archive
This rush had already begun when, early in the seventies, in the interest of her prospective brother-in-law, she approached me on the singular ground of the unencouraged sentiment I had entertained for her sister.
From Embarrassments by Henry James
Men and women never struggle so hard as when they struggle alone, without witness, counsellor, or confidant, unencouraged, unadvised, and unpitied.
From Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
If a person is bent on quarrelling with you, leave the whole of it to himself, and he will soon become weary of his unencouraged occupation.
From Scientific American magazine, Vol. 2 Issue 1 The advocate of Industry and Journal of Scientific, Mechanical and Other Improvements by Rufus Porter
Are you realizing what this all meant to my Carl—until recently reading and pegging away unencouraged in his basement study up on the Berkeley hills?
From An American Idyll The Life of Carleton H. Parker by Cornelia Stratton Parker
