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What is the verb for encouragement?

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encourage
  1. To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.
  2. To spur on, strongly recommend.
  3. To foster, give help or patronage
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “One way to encourage your employees to work harder is by giving them incentives.”
      “His words of wisdom have been promoted to encourage free-thinking.”
      “There is a strong need to encourage the development of entrepreneurship.”
encouraging
encourages
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of encourage
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “It is not an environment which encourages dressing room unity when times are hard.”
      “There aren't many beekeepers who use them now as they are of a double-walled construction that is time-consuming to use and encourages wax moths.”
      “The scholar encourages his students to role play the story of David and Goliath.”
encourageth
  1. (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of encourage
  2. Examples:
    1. “Moses encourageth the people, and Josue, who is appointed to succeed him.”
encouragest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of encourage
encouraged
  1. simple past tense and past participle of encourage
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Interestingly enough, the Prophet also encouraged doing ablution before going to bed.”
      “Community living should be encouraged with offices, schools, shops and services located within walkable distances.”
      “It has encouraged other traditional arts, too, like mirasis, bhands, qawwals and nakals.”
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