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disencouragements

disencouragements is the plural of disencouragement.

Meaning of disencouragement

Noun

disencouragement (countable and uncountable, plural disencouragements)

  1. (nonstandard, obsolete) discouragement
    • to the Disencouragement and Ruin of those who trade in the same Way.1712 July 20 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “WEDNESDAY, July 10, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 443; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume V...

Questions about disencouragements

What is disencouragements the plural of?
Disencouragements is the plural of disencouragement.

Words near disencouragements in the dictionary

  1. disenclosed
  2. disencloses
  3. disenclosing
  4. disencourage
  5. disencouragement
  6. disencouragements
  7. disencumber
  8. disencumbered
  9. disencumbering
  10. disencumberment
  11. disencumberments

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