imbolden

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A form of embolden — To render (someone) bolder or more courageous; to encourage, to hearten.

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Meanings

verbimbolden (third-person singular simple present imboldens, present participle imboldening, simple past and past participle imboldened)

present singular third person imboldens · participle present imboldening · participle past imboldened · past imboldened

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of embolden.

    Their lookes imboldned, modeſtie novv gone, / Conuert at length to little-differing Stone.

    1626, Ovid, “The Tenth Booke”, in George Sandys, transl., Ovid’s Metamorphosis Englished […], London: […] William Stansby, →OCLC, page 201
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    Steel your thoughts, ſharp your reſolue, imboldẽ your spirit, graſp your ſvvords; alarum miſchief, & vvith an vndãted brovv, out ſcout the grim oppoſition of most menacing perill.

    1600 or 1601 (date written), I. M. [i.e., John Marston], Antonios Reuenge. The Second Part. […], London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, and are to be soulde [by Matthew Lownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act V, scene iii, signatures I4, recto – I4, verso

    I have called myſelf to Account upon it, vvhether any Levity in my Looks, my Dreſs, my Appearance, could imbolden ſuch an affrontive Inſolence.

    1742, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXXII. The Journal Continued.”, in Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded. […], volume III, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; and sold by C[harles] Rivington, […]; and J. Osborn, […], →OCLC, page 231
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