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present participle and gerund of discourage examples
that causes discouragement quotations examples
Oh, give me a home where the Buffalo roam / Where the Deer and the Antelope play; / Where never is heard a discouraging word, / And the sky is not clouded all day
1876, Brewster Higley (lyrics and music), “A Home on the Range”
plural discouragings
discouragement quotations examples
But, alas! I fear the health of the better part is dwindling instead of increasing, through letting in the enemy's discouragings, and a want of feeling after the daily sap of life, whereby strength would be received to overcome all obstacles […]
August 6, 1841, Lydia Ann Barclay, letter to J. B.