"incouragement" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1669, John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, London: John Macock, →OCLC, page https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-126081-3026/page/n10/:",
          "text": "We taking it into Our Princely Conſideration, and for his farther Incouragement, have thought fit to grant, and We do hereby give and grant him the ſole Privilege of Printing the ſaid Books:[…]",
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        },
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          "ref": "1692, John Locke, chapter VIII, in Letters Concerning Toleration, page 263:",
          "text": "If your telling the magiſtrate that his ſubjects gain by his miſapplying of force, be not an incouragement to him to miſapply it, the doing good to others muſt ceaſe to be an incouragement to any action.",
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        "Archaic form of encouragement."
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  "word": "incouragement"
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  "lang_code": "en",
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          "ref": "1669, John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, London: John Macock, →OCLC, page https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-126081-3026/page/n10/:",
          "text": "We taking it into Our Princely Conſideration, and for his farther Incouragement, have thought fit to grant, and We do hereby give and grant him the ſole Privilege of Printing the ſaid Books:[…]",
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          "ref": "1692, John Locke, chapter VIII, in Letters Concerning Toleration, page 263:",
          "text": "If your telling the magiſtrate that his ſubjects gain by his miſapplying of force, be not an incouragement to him to miſapply it, the doing good to others muſt ceaſe to be an incouragement to any action.",
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