0 the state of having lost your confidence or enthusiasm for something: --
a feeling of discouragement
1 actions to prevent or try to prevent something from happening or someone from doing something: --
2 a feeling of being less confident or less hopeful: --
He had known discouragement and failure, but in the end he persevered and wound up with a successful business.
Under present discouragements it is utterly impossible for anybody ever again to accumulate money.
They have met with difficulties and discouragements of various kinds.
Our discouragements as well as our successes ought to be recorded.
Together, despite difficulties, disappointments and downright discouragements—some unavoidable and some man-made—they have already achieved great, though unspectacular, things.
We must try to remove all these marginal discouragements.
Can we not agree between us to remove the discouragements to commercial success which politics seem constantly to impose?
Fourthly, as a result of all those discouragements it is clear from the figures that the system is not working.
There should be many more discouragements to people getting married when they are pregnant.
