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emboldening

emboldening is the present participle and gerund of embolden.

Meaning of embolden

Verb

embolden (third-person singular simple present emboldens, present participle emboldening, simple past and past participle emboldened)

  1. (transitive) To render (someone) bolder or more courageous; to encourage, to hearten.
    • 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] […]...
    Synonyms:
    bolden
  2. (transitive) To format (text) in boldface.
    • This note introduces several additional features of LATEX: […] ▪ The use of text style commands, including the \emph command to emphasize text, the \textbf command to embolden text, and the \texttt command to produce typewriter style text.1999, George [A.] Grätzer, “Typing Text”, in First Steps in LATEX, Boston, Mass.: Birkhäuser; New York, N.Y.: Springer, →ISBN, page 8
    Synonyms:
    bold, boldface

Noun

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

Forms of emboldening

pluralemboldenings

Questions about emboldening

What does emboldening mean?
Emboldening means a making bold.
What is emboldening the present participle and gerund of?
Emboldening is the present participle and gerund of embolden.
What part of speech is emboldening?
Emboldening is a noun.
What is the plural of emboldening?
The plural of emboldening is emboldenings.

Words near emboldening in the dictionary

  1. emboldenedst
  2. emboldener
  3. emboldeners
  4. emboldenest
  5. emboldeneth
  6. emboldening
  7. emboldenings
  8. emboldenment
  9. emboldens
  10. embole
  11. embolectomies

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