Encourage vs. Courage — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Encourage and Courage
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Encourage
To inspire with hope, courage, or confidence.
Courage
Courage (also called bravery or valour) is the choice and willingness to confront agony, pain, danger, uncertainty, or intimidation. Valour is courage or bravery, especially in battle.
Encourage
To give support to; foster
Policies designed to encourage private investment.
Courage
The ability to do something that frightens one; bravery
She called on all her courage to face the ordeal
Encourage
To stimulate; spur
Burning the field to encourage new plant growth.
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Courage
The state or quality of mind or spirit that enables one to face danger, fear, or vicissitudes with self-possession, confidence, and resolution; bravery.
Encourage
To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.
I encouraged him during his race.
Delia's coach encouraged her to focus on the positives.
Courage
The quality of being confident, not afraid or easily intimidated, but without being incautious or inconsiderate.
It takes a lot of courage to be successful in business.
Encourage
To spur on, strongly recommend.
We encourage the use of bicycles in the town centre.
We encourage you to cycle instead of taking the car.
Courage
The ability to overcome one's fear, do or live things which one finds frightening.
He plucked up the courage to tell her how he felt.
Encourage
To foster, give help or patronage
The royal family has always encouraged the arts in word and deed.
Courage
The ability to maintain one's will or intent despite either the experience of fear, frailty, or frustration; or the occurrence of adversity, difficulty, defeat or reversal. Moral fortitude.
Encourage
To give courage to; to inspire with courage, spirit, or hope; to raise, or to increase, the confidence of; to animate; enhearten; to incite; to help forward; - the opposite of discourage.
David encouraged himself in the Lord.
Courage
(obsolete) To encourage.
Encourage
Contribute to the progress or growth of;
I am promoting the use of computers in the classroom
Courage
The heart; spirit; temper; disposition.
So priketh hem nature in here corages.
My lord, cheer up your spirits; our foes are nigh,and this soft courage makes your followers faint.
Encourage
Inspire with confidence; give hope or courage to
Courage
Heart; inclination; desire; will.
I'd such a courage to do him good.
Encourage
Spur on;
His financial success encouraged him to look for a wife
Courage
That quality of mind which enables one to encounter danger and difficulties with firmness, or without fear, or fainting of heart; valor; boldness; resolution.
The king-becoming graces . . . Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude,I have no relish of them.
Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it.
Courage
To inspire with courage; to encourage.
Paul writeth unto Timothy . . . to courage him.
Courage
A quality of spirit that enables you to face danger of pain without showing fear
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