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Grammar : Verb

Spell : em-bohl-duh n

Phonetic Transcription : ɛmˈboʊl dən

Definition of embolden

Origin : 1570s, from en- (1) + bold + -en (1). Related: Emboldened.

verb encourage

Example sentences :

The repulse of our army at Fredericksburg will embolden them.
Extract from : « The Citizen-Soldier » by John Beatty

Instead of softening and conciliating, they but embolden and harden them.
Extract from : « Shirley » by Charlotte Bront

That was enough to embolden me, and at the same time make me mad.
Extract from : « Kitty's Conquest » by Charles King

We took another turn around Washington Square, trying to embolden ourself enough to go in and tell the consul all this.
Extract from : « Mince PieAuthor: Christopher Darlington MorleyRelease Date: October 10, 2004 [eBook #13694] » by Christopher Darlington Morley

And this unexpected accusation, instead of frightening her, only served to embolden her.
Extract from : « Historic Girls » by E. S. Brooks

Happily there are things which help to sustain and embolden the soldier in that terrible trial.
Extract from : « The Irish at the Front » by Michael MacDonagh

But we will mention four reasons which should embolden any friend of temperance in urging it upon others.
Extract from : « Select Temperance Tracts » by American Tract Society

But yet Cortes for all hys payne and hurt, ceassed not to embolden & encourage hys Souldyers, who set afreshe vpon the enimies.
Extract from : « The pleasant historie of the conquest of the VVeast India, now called new Spayne » by Francisco Lpez de Gmara

It will embolden them to renewed opposition to the will of the loyal masses, believing that they have the Executive with them.
Extract from : « The Memoirs of General P. H. Sheridan, Complete » by General Philip Henry Sheridan

Time and reason will rectify the first; but time, and even reason, will but harden and embolden the latter.
Extract from : « Camilla » by Fanny Burney

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