In a criminal matter, a priest may encourage the penitent to surrender to authorities.

A priest that walked by heard him and immediately encouraged him to sing at a party.

The then priest of the Antoniter church encouraged the project.

The priest encouraged An to read the Bible and had a series of discussions with him.

A priest, fleeing the French Revolution, was staying with the same family and encouraged the boy to be devout.

In the 5th century, some Christian priests even encouraged participation in funerary meals.

The priest in his feathers encouraged the audience to applaud as the last reluctant bride, me, joined the grouping around the nearly naked man.

It would be different if the priest encouraged them.

Everyone said that the priest had encouraged many of the burnings during the twenties.

But he also discouraged the notion of squatting on untended land that some Brazilian priests have encouraged.