disencourage

disencourage

English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ encourage.

Verb

disencourage (third-person singular simple present disencourages, present participle disencouraging, simple past and past participle disencouraged)

1. (now regional or nonstandard) To discourage.
   • 1800, Frances Burney, Diaries and Letters:

     The world has acknowledged you my offspring, and I will disencourage you no more.

   • 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Amistad 2013, p. 63:

     “They say things sometimes that tickles me nearly tuh death, but Ah won't laugh jus' tuh dis-incourage 'em.”