The Collaborative International Dictionary
Encourager \En*cour"a*ger\, n. One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer.
The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts.
--Addison.
Wiktionary
n. One who gives encouragement.
Usage examples of "encourager".
This earl was a great hypocrite, a pretender to the strictest religion, an encourager of the Puritans, and founder of hospitals.
English people as the confederates and encouragers of conspirators and assassins.
If it was not judged wise to shoot him in the act of escaping, the American could at least be tried and jailed, pour encourager les autres, and Sidi el Ferruch could become a much more valuable chip in the never-ending game played by the Freflch with his father.
Too many guys turn up drunk on duty, and they pick three volunteers, pour encourager les autres.
The last thing the People's Republic of Haven had needed was yet another agonizing show trial, followed by the inevitable, highly public purges of the deposed leader's supporters pour encourager les autres.
If we take Trevors Star away from her, maybe the Committee of Public Safety will shoot her pour encourager les autres.
It didn't require much imagination on Damon's part to figure out that Interpol must be keen to nail some guilty parties and impose some severe punitive sanctions, pour encourager les autres-but he couldn't begin to figure out why their suspicions might have turned in his direction.
He'd been obliged to give the guy a bit of a going over, pour encourager les autres, but decided to cut it short when that woman intervened, mainly because he didn't want Dawson thinking he'd lost his cool.