Convince vs Encourage - What's the difference?
convince | encourage |
To make someone believe, or feel sure about something, especially by using logic, argument or evidence.
* Atterbury
To persuade.
(obsolete) To overcome, conquer, vanquish.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To confute; to prove wrong.
* Francis Bacon
(obsolete) To prove guilty; to convict.
* Bible, John viii. 46
* Dryden
To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.
To spur on, strongly recommend.
To foster, give help or patronage
As verbs the difference between convince and encourage
is that convince is to make someone believe, or feel sure about something, especially by using logic, argument or evidence while encourage is to mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.convince
English
Verb
(convinc)- Such convincing proofs and assurances of it as might enable them to convince others.
- His two chamberlains / Will I with wine and wassail so convince / That memory, the warder of the brain, / Shall be a fume.
- God never wrought miracle to convince' atheism, because his ordinary works ' convince it.
- Which of you convinceth me of sin?
- Seek not to convince me of a crime / Which I can ne'er repent, nor you can pardon.
Synonyms
* persuade * satisfy * assure * convert * win overencourage
English
Verb
(encourag)- I encouraged him during his race.
- We encourage the use of bicycles in the town centre.
- ''The royal family has always encouraged the arts in word and deed