encouragingly

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encouragingly - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Encouraging \En*cour"a*ging\, a.
     Furnishing ground to hope; inspiriting; favoring. --
     En*cour"a*ging*ly, adv.
     [1913 Webster]

encouragingly - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  encouragingly
      adv 1: in an encouraging manner; "`Go on,' he said encouragingly
             to his student" [ant: discouragingly]