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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

Causing or indicating discouragement.

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Dis-cour′a-ging-ly

adv.

ppr.

Discuraging.

Disheartening; depressing courage.

a. Tending to dishearten, or to depress the courage; as discouraging prospects.

discouraging

discouraging

that causes discouragement
- 1876 Brewster Higley - A Home on the Range
- Oh, give me a home where the Buffalo roam / Where the Deer and the Antelope play; / Where never is heard a discouraging word, / And the sky is not clouded all day

discouraging ‎(plural discouragings)

discouragement
- Lydia Ann Barclay
  But, alas! I fear the health of the better part is dwindling instead of increasing, through letting in the enemy's discouragings, and a want of feeling after the daily sap of life, whereby strength would be received to overcome all obstacles […]