encouragement

CEFRB1

[ɪnˈkʌɹɪd͡ʒmənt]

noun

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noun
Words or actions that give someone support and confidence.
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noun
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Something that incites, supports, promotes, protects or advances; incentive

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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7 January 2017, Adharanand Finn writing in The Guardian, The 24-hour race: 'It is a battle with your mind' Diana Celeiro has come all the way from Argentina for the race. It’s her second time here. Her husband, Gustavo, acts as her support crew. Most of the r...
The train was handed over 21 min. late at Salisbury, so there was every encouragement to Driver Moore, of Salisbury, to "get a move on."

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The train was handed over 21 min. late at Salisbury, so there was every encouragement to Driver Moore, of Salisbury, to "get a move on."
1951 August, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performsnce”, in Railway Magazine, page 554
even their arch-enemy the gamekeeper is beginning reluctantly, but gradually, to acquiesce in the general belief of their innocence and utility, I cannot help indulging the hope that this bird will eventually meet with that general encouragement and protection to which its eminent services so richly entitle it.
1904, Edward Verrall Lucas, chapter 2, in Highways and Byways in Sussex
If I live, an' please your honour, but once to get through it, I will never tell it again, quoth Trim, either to man, woman, or child--Poo--poo! said my uncle Toby--but with accents of such sweet encouragement did he utter it, that the corporal went on with his story with more alacrity than ever.
1776, Laurence Sterne, chapter 4, in Tristram Shandy

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Borrowed from Middle French encoragement.