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pour encourager les autres

pour encourager les autres phrase: in order to warn or intimidate others (especially by making an example of someone or something).

Phrase

pour encourager les autres

  1. (ironic) In order to warn or intimidate others (especially by making an example of someone or something).
    • Whenever trouble threatened, Avitabile hanged a few of the citizens from the walls of Government House pour encourager les autres; and when trouble did occur, he doubled the hangings and had a daily roster for suspension with a next-for-the-noose column.1927 June, U. P. A., “L’Oiseau rouge”, in Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, volume 48, number 6, page 464
    • Indeed, some may wish to make withdrawal as painful as possible pour encourager les autres.2016 March 1, Nicholas Wright, “Can Britain's bureaucracy handle a Brexit?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Mar 2016

Origin of pour encourager les autres

Unadapted borrowing from French pour (preposition) encourager (verb) les pl (article) autres pl (adjective) (literally “in order to encourage the others”), as used French writer Voltaire in 1759 in his satire Candide, in reference to the execution of Admiral John Byng.

Questions about pour encourager les autres

What does pour encourager les autres mean?
Pour encourager les autres means in order to warn or intimidate others (especially by making an example of someone or something).
What part of speech is pour encourager les autres?
Pour encourager les autres is a phrase.

Words near pour encourager les autres in the dictionary

  1. pour cold water on
  2. pour cold water over
  3. pour dogs and cats
  4. pour down
  5. pour down the drain
  6. pour encourager les autres
  7. pour forth
  8. pour fuel on the fire
  9. pour gasoline on the fire
  10. pour good money after bad
  11. pour honey in one's ear

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