The Collaborative International Dictionary
Encouraging \En*cour"a*ging\, a. Furnishing ground to hope; inspiriting; favoring. -- En*cour"a*ging*ly, adv.
Wiktionary
adv. In an encouraging manner.
WordNet
adv. in an encouraging manner; "`Go on,' he said encouragingly to his student" [ant: discouragingly]
Usage examples of "encouragingly".
Even so, through the rest of the evening, he yipped encouragingly any time Lynn did anything he felt should make me proud.
Encouragingly, the condottiere remarked to the Irishman that though all of the gentlemen and nobility learned it at a far younger age, everyone learned to stay on a horse in exactly the selfsame embarrassing, painful way.
Riley nodded encouragingly and Caralie answered, her palm slick with sweat despite the cool afternoon air.
Farli unwrapped her tail and peered up at Jaxom, chirping encouragingly.
Of course, when Merelan gestured encouragingly, the rest of the Hold sang the choruses to her first song.
Master Zist had seen the look on his face and had worked carefully to cheer Kindan up before the Gather, finding dainties for him and talking encouragingly about the watch-wher and Kindan's sacrifice for the good of the miners.
At such times the passengers would call down encouragingly to the toilers of the rope, exhorting them to patience, and holding out hopes of possible compensation in another world for the hardness of their lot, while others contributed to buy salves and liniments for the crippled and injured.
Tris chirruped encouragingly, as if he were com pletely aware of Piemur's internal confusion.
I said encouragingly, as the white chocolate mousse with raspberry coulis arrived.
The editor of the magazine is an encouragingly unlikely figure whom the media are already fingering as a frontman booked for early departure.
Tip clicked encouragingly at her while Huf slid open a window and started crackling at the nearby fliers who then did make way for the sledge.
Lightlow continued pacing, nodding encouragingly as each students thought balloon became a light bulb.
And she held out her little hand, which Mary squeezed encouragingly.
Carpenter stirred, opened a red-rimmed eye: Nicholls smiled down encouragingly.
He said Nunez must have been specially created to learn and serve the wisdom they had acquired, and that for all his mental incoherency and stumbling behaviour he must have courage and do his best to learn, and at that all the people in the door-way murmured encouragingly.