pour encourager les autres

== English == === 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. === Pronunciation === === Phrase === pour encourager les autres (ironic) In order to warn or intimidate others (especially by making an example of someone or something). For more quotations using this term, see Citations:pour encourager les autres. === References === “pour encourager les autres”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. “pour encourager les autres, phr.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. === Further reading === John Byng on Wikipedia.Wikipedia