Definition of "discouragements" [discouragements]

• Plural form of discouragement. (noun)

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• "But how encouraging, under all discouragements, is that simple promise – "Ask and ye shall receive;" especially when we reflect that God, "who cannot lie," has given it to each of us."
• "But as applied to the state of Ireland, to the form of our commonwealth, to the parties that divide us, and to the dispositions of the leading men in those parties, I cannot hesitate to lay before you my opinion, that, whilst any kind of discouragements and disqualifications remain on the"
• "In her books, life persists, grand and gaudy and marvellous; it trumps the depths and discouragements."