noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Despite early discouragements, she eventually became a successful songwriter.
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Our reaction to the court's decision is one of discouragement and disappointment.
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the country's discouragement of religion
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It is as if the entire party structure and philosophy had been geared towards the exclusion of participation and the discouragement of debate.
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Its cadres were decimated, whether through discouragement , capitulation, imprisonment, or outright murder.
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New ideas are often eroded by subtle discouragement rather than by explicit vetoes.
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Sandys was able to keep up emigration, but death and discouragement meant the population hardly rose above 1,000.
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Sometimes a sympathetic friend can be a constant source of discouragement , all unknowingly.
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Surely, the sanguine tone seemed out of place; maybe it was meant to mask deep discouragement .
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These things are not written under any feeling of discouragement , much less to discourage others.
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They are a kind of a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement .