English

Verb

enhearten ‎(third-person singular simple present enheartens, present participle enheartening, simple past and past participle enheartened)

1. To comfort and embolden, encourage, animate, hearten

   • 1954, JRR Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, Vol 3, Houghton Mifflin Co., page 164:

     But the victory did little to enhearten the captains.

References

1. ↑ The Oxford English Dictionary (2007).

• 2. Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, Vol III, p1935, enhearten