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embolden, imbolden, v.|ɛm-, ɪmˈbəʊldən|
Also 6 enbolden, -bowlden, 6–7 emboulden, -bowlden.
[f. en-, in- + bold + -en.]
trans. To render bold or more bold; to hearten, encourage.
α1571Campion Hist. Irel. (1633) 2 Ep. Ded., I am embouldned to present them to your Lordships patronage. 1583T. Stocker Tragicall Hist. I. 109 b, We..are enboldened to exhibite a certeine supplication. 1597J. Payne Royal Exch. 46 He enbowldeneth the erringe hart to suffer for error. 1667Milton P.L. viii. 434 Thus I embold'nd spake. 1709Addison Tatler No. 100 ⁋4 Their Aspects were so..emboldened with Resolution. 1818Jas. Mill Brit. India II. v. iii. 403 The Bombay Presidency were more emboldened in their importunity. 1860Macaulay Biog. (1867) 88 The affronts which his poverty emboldened..low-minded men to offer to him.
β1586T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. i. (1589) 218 Ambition..imboldeneth [the son] to seeke his destruction of whom he holdeth his life. 1626G. Sandys Ovid's Met. x. 201 Their lookes imboldned, modestie now gone. 1741Richardson Pamela III. 231 Whether..my Look, my Dress, my Appearance..imbolden such an affrontive Insolence. 1854J. Abbot Napoleon (1855) I. xxv. 406 The..inconvenience of imboldening..the foes of the consular government.
Hence emˈboldener, one who or that which emboldens. emˈboldening vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1847Craig, Emboldener. 1882Stevenson Treasure Isl. iv, Argument is a great emboldener. 1503Act. 19 Hen. VII c. 10 Small fines have been..set to the..great emboldening of the said Offenders. 1575in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford 364 Another imboldeninge of evill persons. 1628Wither, Brit. Rememb. iii. 248 But, rather, lesse imboldning then before. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. (ed. 3) I. v. 297 There was nothing..but..emboldening of their foes. |