Meanings
verbenhearten (third-person singular simple present enheartens, present participle enheartening, simple past and past participle enheartened)
present singular third person enheartens · participle present enheartening · participle past enheartened · past enheartened
- To comfort and embolden, encourage, animate, hearten.
But the victory did little to enhearten the captains.
1954, JRR Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, Vol 3, Houghton Mifflin Co., page 1641 more example
[…] it is only with difficulty that they are induced to make the enheartening prayer “May the gods fight on our side.”
1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “V. The Seven Against Thebes”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 136
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
- Proto-Italic*en
- Proto-Italic*en-
- Latinin-
- Old Frenchen-
- Middle Englishen-
- Englishen-
- Englishhearten
- Englishenhearten
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APA
enhearten. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/enhearten
MLA
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Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “enhearten,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/enhearten.
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