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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
encourage .
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Examples
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Thou encouragest I know not what hopes in me with that friendly look, and when I extend my arms to thee, thou willingly extendest thine; when I smile, thou smilest in return; often, too, have
The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII 43 BC-18? Ovid 1847
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Thou that knowest better, encouragest the wretched African to create his own misery; to dig from his dark purple mountains the very iron fetters of his own slavery!
Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828
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Hereby thou encouragest thyself in thy lewd and riotous courses; and, because thy Lord delayeth his coming, art the more negligent and extravagant.
The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 07. 1630-1694 1820
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