disencourage

Updated: July 25, 2026

"Oh, Ishmael, hush! It won't do. I'm not convinced. I don't expect ever to see you alive again." "Law, Hannah, my dear, don't be so disbelieving. Really, now, you disencourage one." "Hold your tongue, Reuben, you're a fool! I say it, and I stand to it, that steamer will either burst her boiler, or catch on fire, or sink, or something! And we shall never see our boy again."

Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth - Self-Raised : Or, From the Depths

"He says, 'You'll have yo' hands full. There's a number of young fellows hereabouts that you don't lay it over none in p'int of freshness or looks. "I says, 'Does she encourage any of 'em? "He says, 'Nope, she don't. Ain't I been tellin' you she's givin' her mind to keepin' house fo' her pore old father? "I says, 'If she don't encourage 'em none, she shore must disencourage 'em.

Vaughan Kester - The Prodigal Judge