Definition of "encouragement"
noun
countable and uncountable, plural encouragements
Words or actions that increase someone's confidence
Quotations
If I live, an' please your honour, but once to get through it, I will never tell it again, quoth Trim, either to man, woman, or child--Poo--poo! said my uncle Toby--but with accents of such sweet encouragement did he utter it, that the corporal went on with his story with more alacrity than ever.
1776, Laurence Sterne, chapter 4, in Tristram Shandy