Encouragement vs Patience - What's the difference?
encouragement | patience |
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.
The quality of being patient.
Any of various card games that can be played by one person. Called solitaire in the US. (card game).
As a noun encouragement
is the act of encouraging; incitement to action or to practice; as, the encouragement of youth in generosity.As a proper noun patience is
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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.