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  • verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of encourage.

Etymologies

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encourage +‎ -eth

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Examples

  • And elsewhere he encourageth his patients to have a good faith, [2802] a strong imagination, and they shall find the effects: let divines say to the contrary what they will.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • For commonly such states are grown rich in the time of their degenerating; and so the prey inviteth, and their decay in valor, encourageth a war.

    The Essays 2007

  • And again, when Mucianus encourageth Vespasian, to take arms against Vitellius, he saith, We rise not against the piercing judgment of Augustus, nor the extreme caution or closeness of Tiberius.

    The Essays 2007

  • For those examples are so many hopes of impunity, given by the sovereign himself: and because he which furnishes a man with such a hope and presumption of mercy, as encourageth him to offend, hath his part in the offence, he cannot reasonably charge the offender with the whole.

    Leviathan 2007

  • And the establishing of this especial faith in our souls is that which the apostle aims at in his excellent reasoning, Heb.ix. 13, 14; and his conclusion unto that purpose is so evident, that he encourageth us thereon to draw nigh in the full assurance of faith, chap. x.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • The devil stirred them up to fill men with vain hopes, to keep them in sin and security, that destruction might seize upon them at unawares: and whoever take the same course in the time of deserved, threatened, impendent judgments, though they use not the same means, yet they also do the work of the devil; for whatever encourageth men to be secure in their sins is a false divination, Jer.v. 30, 31.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • This we know, that what God commands and prescribes unto us, what he encourageth us unto, we ought with all diligence and earnestness, as we value our souls and their eternal welfare, to attend unto and comply withal.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • He establisheth, I say, their faith upon this fourfold description of himself, or revelation of these four attributes of his nature, as engaged for the effecting of that which he encourageth them to expect.

    The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

  • That which God affirms shall be certainly and infallibly fulfilled upon the account of the immutability of his own nature, and encourageth men to expect it as certainly to be fulfilled as he is unchangeable; that shall infallibly, notwithstanding all oppositions and difficulties, be wrought and perfected.

    The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

  • The prophet encourageth himself and all others to trust in God, and serve him.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2 Anonymous

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