Crossword-Solution: DISCOURAGEMENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Discouragement | n. | The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection. |
| Discouragement | n. | That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent; as, the revolution was commenced under every possible discouragement. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “DISCOURAGEMENT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles | 1 answer |
| low spirits | 27 answers |
| desperation | 61 answers |
| despair | 71 answers |
| funk | 72 answers |
| Hindrance | 100 answers |
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with DISCOURAGEMENT (5)
His pervading and continual hope—a hallucination, which, in the face of all discouragement, and making light of impossibilities, haunts him while he lives, and, I fancy, like the convulsive throes of the cholera, torments him for a brief space after death—is, that finally, and in no long time, by some happy coincidence of circumstances, he shall be restored to office.
This is to-day, but it will soon be to-morrow, and then we may be very different people, and in some other country.” He had a way of floating people out of dull or awkward situations, out of their own torpor or constraint or discouragement.
Robert had pursued a system of lessons almost daily; and he was nearly at the point of discouragement in realizing the futility of his efforts.
The gesture suggested sudden discouragement, or distaste for his work and she wondered if he too were agitated by secret perplexities.
When a farmer once got into the habit of going to Cutter, it was like gambling or the lottery; in an hour of discouragement he went back.
Quotes with DISCOURAGEMENT (3)
I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection.
It was only vanity and discouragement that sometimes made me feel alone with my endless love, but now that I was taking one of the risks my heart had urged upon me I could also feel I was not alone. If endless love was a dream, then it was a dream we all shared, even more than we all shared the dream of never dying or of traveling through time, and if anything set me apart it was not my impulses but my stubbornness, my willingness to take the dream past what had been agreed u…