Encouragement vs Incur - What's the difference?
encouragement | incur |
The act of encouraging; incitement to action or to practice; as, the encouragement of youth in generosity.
That which serves to incite, support, promote or advance, as favor, countenance, reward etc.; incentive; increase of confidence; as, the fine arts find little encouragement among a rude people.
To bring upon oneself or expose oneself to, especially something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to become liable or subject to.
* 1891 , Henry Graham Dakyns (translator), The works of Xenophon , ",
* 1910 , ,
(chiefly, legal) To render somebody liable or subject to.
* 1861 , ,
(obsolete) To enter or pass into.
(obsolete) To fall within a period or scope; to occur; to run into danger.
To render liable or subject to; to occasion.
* Chapman
As a noun encouragement
is the act of encouraging; incitement to action or to practice; as, the encouragement of youth in generosity.As a verb incur is
to bring upon oneself or expose oneself to, especially something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to become liable or subject to.encouragement
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Alternative forms
* incouragement (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- All generous encouragement of arts. -Otway.
- To think of his paternal care, Is a most sweet encouragement to prayer. -Byron.
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* See alsoReferences
(Webster 1913) ----incur
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Alternative forms
* encurVerb
(incurr)- [T]he master in his wrath may easily incur worse evil himself than he inflicts—[...]
- And here it is to be noted that hatred is incurred as well on account of good actions as of bad;
- The least neglect of duty will incur [...] the penalty of thirty-nine well laid on in the morning.
- Lest you incur me much more damage in my fame than you have done me pleasure in preserving my life.