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[jays]

Which of the two is the meaning of the sentence of "She discouraged him to go." ? Thank you.
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1 She discouraged him from going.
2 She discouraged him and so he went.

I appreciate the two answers about the above question. But, I easily find the pattern " discourage someone to do" in Yahoo. One example is as below. Is such pattern formal? And which of the above two is similar to the expression in the example?

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"Terrence asked us if he could match up on him (Torry Holt) the entire game one-on-one and we sort of discouraged him to think that way," Lions head coach Steve Mariucci said.

http://www.detroitlions.com/notebook.cfm?document_id=253782

[LucentShade]

Hmm, I still think that "discouraged from doing" is more correct; "We discouraged him to think that way" still means "We persuaded him not to think that way" / "We convinced him not to think that way" / "We discouraged him from thinking that way." With either preposition / verb from combination, the meaning is still the same:

"We discouraged him to think that way" = result: he did not think that way
"We discouraged him from thinking that way" = result: he did not think that way

In any case, the action that appears after "discouraged" is not done.