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What (who) is Encourage - definition

APOSTOLATE OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH

Encourage; Courage Apostolate

encourage

¦ verb give support, confidence, or hope to.

?help or stimulate the development of.

Derivatives

encouragement noun

encourager noun

encouraging adjective

encouragingly adverb

Origin

ME: from Fr. encourager, from en- 'in' + corage 'courage'.

encourage

v.

1) (H) she encouraged me to leave

2) (K) who encouraged his taking drugs.

3) (R) it encouraged me (to learn) that they had promised to help

encourage

(encourages, encouraging, encouraged)

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.

1.

If you encourage someone, you give them confidence, for example by letting them know that what they are doing is good and telling them that they should continue to do it.

When things aren't going well, he encourages me, telling me not to give up.

VERB: V n

2.

If someone is encouraged by something that happens, it gives them hope or confidence.

Investors were encouraged by the news...

VERB: usu passive, be V-ed by n

• encouraged

We were very encouraged, after over 17,000 pictures were submitted...

I am encouraged that more physicians are asking questions in these meetings and coming to workshops.

ADJ: v-link ADJ, oft ADJ that

3.

If you encourage someone to do something, you try to persuade them to do it, for example by telling them that it would be a pleasant thing to do, or by trying to make it easier for them to do it. You can also encourage an activity.

Herbie Hancock was encouraged by his family to learn music at a young age...

Participation is encouraged at all levels.

VERB: V n to-inf, V n

4.

If something encourages a particular activity or state, it causes it to happen or increase.

...a natural substance that encourages cell growth...

Slow music encourages supermarket-shoppers to browse longer but spend more.

VERB: V n, V n to-inf

Wikipedia

Courage International

Courage International, also known as Courage Apostolate and Courage for short, is an approved apostolate of the Catholic Church that counsels "men and women with same-sex attractions in living chaste lives in fellowship, truth and love". Based on a treatment model for drug and alcohol addictions used in programs like Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), Courage runs a peer support program aimed at helping gay people remain abstinent from same-sex sexual activity.

The organization runs support groups led by a priest to encourage its members to abstain from acting on their homosexual desires and to live according to the teachings of the Catholic Church on homosexuality. Courage also has a ministry geared towards the relatives and friends of gay people called Encourage.

The apostolate was endorsed by the Pontifical Council for the Family in 1994 through the statement of Alfonso Cardinal López Trujillo.

Courage has received criticism from LGBT advocacy groups, such as New Ways Ministry, which say that Courage's methods are "problematic and very dangerous to people's spiritual health". In 2015, the Southern Poverty Law Center listed Courage International as one of the ten most prominent "ex-gay" anti-LGBT organizations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courage International

Examples of use of Encourage

1. "We will not do anything that will encourage hostage–taking, that will encourage terrorism.

2. Afghanistan has refused to release Taliban prisoners, saying that would encourage a kidnapping "industry." "We will not do anything that will encourage hostage–taking, that will encourage terrorism.

3. They must include provisions that encourage growth, but also cuts in the kind of spending that does not encourage growth.

4. The birth will encourage Japanese to have children: Koizumi has voiced hope the birth will encourage Japanese to have children.

5. QUESTION:В You encourage them to work together.В Does it mean you encourage them to form a coalition government?