disencouragement

From dis- +‎ encouragement.

disencouragement (countable and uncountable, plural disencouragements)

1. (obsolete or nonstandard) discouragement
   • 1712 July 21 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “THURSDAY, July 10, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 443; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume V, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:

     to the Disencouragement and Ruin of those who trade in the same Way.

     The spelling has been modernized.

• “disencouragement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.