DISCOURAGE, discurage. dis and courage. See Courage.
1. To extinguish the courage of to dishearten to depress the spirits to deject to deprive of confidence.
Fathers, provoke not your children, lest they be discouraged. Colossians 3 .
2. To deter from any thing with from.
Why discourage ye the hearts of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the Lord hath given them? Numbers 32 .
3. To attempt to repress or prevent to dissuade from as, to discourage an effort.
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