Steel your thoughts, ſharp your reſolue, imboldẽ your spirit, graſp your ſvvords; alarum miſchief, & vvith an vndãted brovv, out ſcout the grim oppoſition of most menacing perill.
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Embolden
//ɛmˈbəʊld(ə)n//
Synonyms for "embolden" (43 found)
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Closest matches (9)
Strong matches (13)
Related words (21)
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24 translations across 13 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- θρασύνω verb (to render (someone) bolder or more courageous — see also encourage, hearten)
Armenian
1 entries- քաջալերել verb (to render (someone) bolder or more courageous — see also encourage, hearten)
Bulgarian
2 entries- насърчавам verb (to render (someone) bolder or more courageous — see also encourage, hearten)
- окуражавам verb (to render (someone) bolder or more courageous — see also encourage, hearten)
Dutch
2 entries- moed geven verb (to render (someone) bolder or more courageous — see also encourage, hearten)
- verstouten verb (to render (someone) bolder or more courageous — see also encourage, hearten)
Esperanto
3 entries- grasigi verb (to format (text) in boldface)
- instigi verb (to render (someone) bolder or more courageous — see also encourage, hearten)
- kuraĝigi verb (to render (someone) bolder or more courageous — see also encourage, hearten)
Finnish
3 entries- kannustaa verb (to render (someone) bolder or more courageous — see also encourage, hearten)
- lihavoida verb (to format (text) in boldface)
- rohkaista verb (to render (someone) bolder or more courageous — see also encourage, hearten)
French
2 entries- encourager verb (to render (someone) bolder or more courageous — see also encourage, hearten)
- enhardir verb (to render (someone) bolder or more courageous — see also encourage, hearten)
Galician
1 entries- arrufar verb (to render (someone) bolder or more courageous — see also encourage, hearten)
German
4 entries- bestärken verb (to render (someone) bolder or more courageous — see also encourage, hearten)
- ermutigen verb (to render (someone) bolder or more courageous — see also encourage, hearten)
- fett setzen verb (to format (text) in boldface)
- fetten verb (to format (text) in boldface)
Hungarian
1 entries- félkövérít verb (to format (text) in boldface)
Macedonian
1 entries- охрабри verb (to render (someone) bolder or more courageous — see also encourage, hearten)
Spanish
2 entries- encorajar verb (to render (someone) bolder or more courageous — see also encourage, hearten)
- envalentonar verb (to render (someone) bolder or more courageous — see also encourage, hearten)
Welsh
1 entries- hyfhau verb (to render (someone) bolder or more courageous — see also encourage, hearten)
Sample sentences
19 total sentences available.
I haue heard many ſuch things: miſerable comforters are ye all. Shall vaine words haue an ende? or what emboldeneth thee, that thou anſwereſt?
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I haue ſeene a pardon giuen to a man vpon the gallovves, but vvho ſo emboldeneth himſelfe thereuypon, perhaps the rope may be his hire: it is not good to put it vpon the Pſalme of Miſerere, and the neck-verſe, for ſometime he prooues no clarke.
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Their lookes imboldned, modeſtie novv gone, / Conuert at length to little-differing Stone.
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