Discourage
Discourage verb - To lessen the courage or confidence of.
Tempered is an antonym for discourage.
Nearby Words: discouragement, discouraging
Tempered
Tempered adjective - Made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment.
Both words in one sentence
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Subverted rather cruelly in Harry Turtledove's Darkness sequence, where, while dragons are commonly used for aerial combat, they are nasty, foul-tempered, violent, and stupid creatures who have to be cruelly treated from birth in order to discourage them from killing their riders.
Source: Dragon Rider - Dragon Rider: Deconstructed — while dragons are commonly used for aerial combat, they are nasty, foul-tempered, violent, and stupid creatures who have to be cruelly treated from birth in order to discourage them from killing their riders.
Source: Literature / Darkness Series
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