braven

present singular third person bravens · participle present bravening · participle past bravened · past bravened

1. ambitransitiveTo make or become brave

   A hardy, self-helpful child life, bravened by necessities, never undermined by luxuries.

   2008, James Lane Allen, The Mettle of the Pasture

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   But the courage of those boys was marvellous and unfailing, and the veteran soldiers who bravened them, the men who had returned with healed wounds or, had, by some miracle, passed unscathed through many battles, said, “Well done, kids!” and could not praise them enough.

   1919, Philip Gibbs, The repulse: From Flanders to the Marne

   "Fear not, O, fear not, Joseph" . . . he had heard and knew It now for kindly speech that bravened him, […]

   1968, John W. Lynch, A Woman Wrapped in Silence, page 30