emboldening

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of embolden

plural emboldenings

1. A making bold.

   They do not fear shameful fears, nor are they emboldened by shameful emboldenings.

   2010, Laurence Lampert, How Philosophy Became Socratic, page 119

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   Ruling in the immunity case, Chief Justice John Roberts seemed to serenely arrogate to the Court an immense power to determine whether the president might ever face criminal consequence without worrying whether the emboldening of a rampaging executive might at some point place the authority of the judiciary in danger.

   2025 April 9, Quinta Jurecic, “What, Exactly, Is the Supreme Court Thinking?”, in The Atlantic