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Definition of Emboldening
1. embolden [v] - See also: embolden
Lexicographical Neighbors of Emboldening
Literary usage of Emboldening
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Existing Conflict Between Republican Government and Southern Oligarchy by Green Berry Raum (1884)
"... for the Murders—Its Result in Emboldening the Perpetrators to further Crimes.
WHEN Congress met in December, 1865, the Provisional Governments organized ..."
2. A Dictionary of the Welsh Language: Explained in English; with Numerous by William Owen Pughe (1832)
"... A self-emboldening; a mutually emboldening. ... A self-emboldening; a mutually
emboldening. ..."
3. The Works of Thomas Jackson, D.D. ...: Sometime President of Corpus Christi by Thomas Jackson (1844)
"... in our apostle's time, by garded than had been requisite, emboldening them to
eat of things as not considering that our apo- suspected for unlawful. ..."
4. The Whole Works of John Bunyan by John Bunyan, George Offor (1862)
"Hope is excellent at emboldening a man in the cause of God. ... Hope, therefore,
is a soul-encouraging grace, a soul-emboldening grace, ..."
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