■ verb give support, confidence, or hope to.
↘help or stimulate the development of.
Derivatives
~ment noun
~r noun
encouraging adjective
encouragingly adverb
Origin
ME: from Fr. ~r , from en- 'in' + corage 'courage'.
■ verb give support, confidence, or hope to.
↘help or stimulate the development of.
Derivatives
~ment noun
~r noun
encouraging adjective
encouragingly adverb
Origin
ME: from Fr. ~r , from en- 'in' + corage 'courage'.
Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004