discouragement
IPA: dɪskˈɝɪdʒmʌnt
noun
- The loss of confidence or enthusiasm.
- The act of discouraging.
- Anything that discourages.
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Examples of "discouragement" in Sentences
- Let us blot out the word discouragement from the anti-slavery vocabulary.
- The most effective treatment for discouragement is to sing, be busy, do something creative, and serve others.
- The net effect of such discouragement is expressed by an academic woman who has adopted the compliant female stance:
- So they immediately wrote to him about these affairs; but as the Jews were now under terror, and afraid lest the king should change his resolutions as to the building of Jerusalem and of the temple, there were two prophets at that time among them, Haggai and Zechariah, who encouraged them, and bid them be of good cheer, and to suspect no discouragement from the Persians, for that God foretold this to them.
- It is by no means certain that the earth is not falling short of its destiny, as has probably happened to countless worlds; it is even possible that our age may one day be regarded as the culminating point since which humanity has been steadily deteriorating; but the universe does not know the meaning of the word discouragement; it will commence anew the work which has come to naught; each fresh check leaves it young, alert, and full of illusions.
- But before that nameless prejudice that leaps beyond all this he stands helpless, dismayed, and well-nigh speechless; before that personal disrespect and mockery, the ridicule and systematic humiliation, the distortion of fact and wanton license of fancy, the cynical ignoring of the better and boisterous welcoming of the worse, the all-pervading desire to inculcated disdain for everything black, from Toussaint to the devil, — before this there rises a sickening despair that would disarm and discourage any nation save that black host to whom "discouragement" is an unwritten word.
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