Meanings
verbdisencourage (third-person singular simple present disencourages, present participle disencouraging, simple past and past participle disencouraged)
present singular third person disencourages · participle present disencouraging · participle past disencouraged · past disencouraged
- nonstandardregionalTo discourage.
The world has acknowledged you my offspring, and I will disencourage you no more.
1800, Frances Burney, Diaries and Letters1 more example
“They say things sometimes that tickles me nearly tuh death, but Ah won't laugh jus' tuh dis-incourage 'em.”
1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Amistad, published 2013, page 63
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