English Explanatory Dictionary

pour encourager les autres

English dictionary entry

Meanings

phrase
  1. In order to warn or intimidate others (especially by making an example of someone or something).

Pronunciation

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Word forms

pour encourager les autres

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French pour (preposition) encourager (verb) les pl (article) autres pl (adjective) (literally “in order to encourage the others”), as used French writer Voltaire in 1759 in his satire Candide, in reference to the execution of Admiral John Byng.

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