Encouraging vbl. sb.

[f. ENCOURAGE v. + -ING¹.] The action of the vb. ENCOURAGE.

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1578. Chr. Prayers, in Priv. Prayers (1851), 539. That I may have a longing to [the true good things] through thine encouraging.

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1637. Decree Star Chamb., § 11, in Milton, Areop. For the … incouraging of Printers in their honest … endeauours.

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1658. Whole Duty Man, i. § 22 (1687), 4. To the incouraging of us in sins.

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