Encourages
[in'kʌridʒz]
Examples
- It is he who encourages me. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- St. Clare, I believe, encourages her in it. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Mr Wrayburn encourages those notions to make himself of importance, and so she thinks she ought to be grateful to him, and perhaps even likes to be. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It neither encourages nor discourages improvement. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- What has happened in the schoolroom encourages me to persevere in the investigation. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- But still it really, and in the end, encourages that species of industry which it means to promote. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It is chiefly by encouraging the manufactures of Europe, that the colony trade indirectly encourages its agriculture. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- What encourages the progress of population and improvement, encourages that of real wealth and greatness. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The establishment of such a company necessarily encourages adventurers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Who can be worse than a wife who encourages a lover, and poisons her husband's mind against his relative? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- She is grateful to the artists that bring to her this high credit and fill her coffers with foreign money, and so she encourages them with pensions. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The liberal reward of labour, as it encourages the propagation, so it increases the industry of the common people. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Typed by Carlyle