discouragement (age as Ig)

[Eng. dis courage; -ment.] 1. The act of discouraging, depriving of spirit, or disheartening. 2. The act of discountenancing or disapproving; disapprobation. 3. The act of di uading or deterring from any. thing; deterrent. 4. That which discourages or disheartens. (Followed by to before the person affected.) "Amongst other impediments of any inventions, it is none of the meanest discouragements , that they are so generally derided by common opinion."- Wilkins . 5. That which deters or di uades. (Followed by from.) "The books read at schools and colleges are full of incitements to virtue, and discouragements from vice." Swift . 6. The state of being discouraged, disheartened, or dispirited; dejection, depre ion. "Lest over great discouragement might make them desperate."- State Trials ; Henry Garnet (1606).