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Hearten   /hˈɑrtən/   Listen
verb
Hearten  v. t.  
1.
To encourage; to animate; to incite or stimulate the courage of; to embolden. "Hearten those that fight in your defense."
2.
To restore fertility or strength to, as to land.





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"Hearten" Quotes from Famous Books



... forgotten these many years. But I recall that in it I likened myself to a sailor navigating shoals and besought the pharos of Giuliana's eyes to bring me safely through, besought her to anoint me with her glance and so hearten me to brave the ...
— The Strolling Saint • Raphael Sabatini
... moods, and they left their own lines upon his face. But he had one thing to hearten him, and that was the steady progress of his broken leg toward recovery. A long, tedious process it was, of necessity; but as nearly as he could judge, the bone was knitting together and would be straight and strong again, if he did not try to hurry it too much. He tried to ...
— The Ranch at the Wolverine • B. M. Bower
... balcony hung with banners To wave them on. The foremost have sent your name Echoing rearward to hearten new battalions. Your beauty is the sunset's streaming flag, It is the vivid standard of the dawn Flapping over dazed dream-voyagers That kneel on new sun-pooled, mysterious strands. It wasted the moon to pallor, ...
— Perpetual Light • William Rose Benet
... nightly of a gracious lady whose hair is gold and whose eyes are colored like the summer sea and whose voice is clear and low and very wonderfully sweet. Nightly, I think, the vision of that dear enemy will hearten me to fight for France by day. In effect, mademoiselle, your traitor beauty will yet aid me to destroy ...
— The Line of Love - Dizain des Mariages • James Branch Cabell
... Clara had seated herself near the window, not a little embarrassed; but as she saw that her husband still retained his accustomed cheerfulness, she also kept her self-possession—not, however, without much wondering how it would all end. Henry came in for a moment to hearten her, and also to fetch ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 • Various


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