Discouragement vs Discourage - What's the difference?
discouragement | discourage |
To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject.
* Bible, Col. iii. 21
To persuade somebody not to do something.
* Abraham Lincoln
Lack of courage
As nouns the difference between discouragement and discourage
is that discouragement is the act of discouraging while discourage is {{cx|rare|lang=en}} Lack of courage.As a verb discourage is
to extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject.discourage
English
Verb
(discourag)- Don't be discouraged by the amount of work left to do: you'll finish it in good time.
- Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged .
- Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.