becourage

English

Etymology

be- +‎ courage

Verb

becourage (third-person singular simple present becourages, present participle becouraging, simple past and past participle becouraged) (transitive)

  1. Synonym of discourage
    • 1997, University of the Western Cape, Interdesciplinary Conference on Gender and Colonialism, volume 2:
      She felt so unnerved, she began stammering badly when the wardresses spoke to her, but was becouraged when her brother visited and said they had been 'asking questions in the House' [of Commons] about her (and a sign of the protection afforded by not being a local!)
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