rewarding good deeds; encouraging virtue
Almost exclusively used in the fixed compound 勧善懲悪 (rewarding good and punishing evil). Rarely appears independently.
See also: 勧善懲悪
The 勧善 in 勧善懲悪 means encouraging good deeds.
rewarding good and punishing evil; poetic justice
Composed of 勧 (encourage, recommend) and 善 (good, virtue). The exact historical derivation is uncertain; the term is mainly known through the compound 勧善懲悪.