embolden
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: media
publishing
typography
Etymology: From bold (adjective) + em- -en (variant of en- -en (circumfix forming transitive verbs denoting an increase in, or intensification of, the quality denoted by the enclosed word)). Compare Middle English embolden, enbolden (“to make bold, encourage”) (modern English embold, enbold, imbold (obsolete)), and inboldysshen (“to embolden, encourage”).
Base: bold
Affixes: em- -en
Inflected forms:
form: emboldens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: emboldening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: emboldened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: emboldened
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: embolden
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: embolden
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: emboldened
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: embolden
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: emboldenest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: emboldened
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: emboldenedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: emboldens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: emboldeneth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: emboldened
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: embolden
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: emboldened
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: embolden
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: emboldened
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: embolden
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: emboldening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: emboldened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: imbolden
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To render (someone) bolder or more courageous; to encourage, to hearten.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
I haue heard many ſuch things: miſerable comforters are ye all. Shall vaine words haue an ende? or what emboldeneth thee, that thou anſwereſt?
I haue ſeene a pardon giuen to a man vpon the gallovves, but vvho ſo emboldeneth himſelfe thereuypon, perhaps the rope may be his hire: it is not good to put it vpon the Pſalme of Miſerere, and the neck-verſe, for ſometime he prooues no clarke.
Their lookes imboldned, modeſtie novv gone, / Conuert at length to little-differing Stone.
Give me a reaſon; vvhat is it that ſtirrs thee to reply upon me, VVhat emboldeneth thee to anſvver? The Hebrevv vvord ſignifies, firſt, to ſtrengthen, to fortifie, or confirme; he that is ſtrengthened, is emboldened.
Thus I embold'nd ſpake, and freedom us'd / Permiſſive, and acceptance found, which gain'd / This anſwer from the gratious voice Divine.
[H]earing by chance of your worship's great humanity towards robin-red-breasts and tom-tits, he [a rooster] is emboldened to beseech you to take his deplorable condition into your tender consideration, who otherwise must suffer, with many thousands more as innocent as himself, that inhuman barbarity of a Shrove-Tuesday persecution.
I have called myſelf to Account upon it, vvhether any Levity in my Looks, my Dreſs, my Appearance, could imbolden ſuch an affrontive Inſolence.
Nay, now, Luis, thou emboldenest me to remind thee that I expressed a wish that thou would'st not go on thy last voyage to the north, and yet thou didst depart!
In the day I called, Thou answeredst me; / Thou emboldenedst me with strength in my soul.
'Tis thou [champagne] who emboldenest by thy sunny influence and exhilarating smiles the feeble, the nervous, and the weak, who plantest courage in the hearts of the speechless, and bringest voice to the lips of the silent.
About this time, the success of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway had emboldened people to think that it was necessary merely to invest in any proposed new line to be assured of at least a 10 per cent. return on their money.
The peasants did not automatically demand arms to defend a new-won plot of land. Nor was the key motivation simple fear of the landlord's revenge, as Sidney Rittenberg and other observers suggested at the time. Indeed, far from emboldening the peasant, that fear probably had more of an intimidating influence.
Broadly speaking, the official Chinese reaction has been to express concern and skepticism about the stated U.S. rationale for the rebalance to Asia, lament the "lack of strategic trust" between Washington and Beijing, urge greater respect for Chinese "core interests," stress negative consequences of the rebalance for Asian security (especially in its supposed rose in emboldening U.S. allies and partners to challenge Chinese maritime territorial claims), and redouble efforts to stabilize Sino–U.S. relations, most notably through efforts to build a "new type of great power relations" with Washington.
The best end state takes the most devotion. Such commitment emboldens the team, inspires individual members, and makes everything that follows worth doing. It takes courage to make such choices, and the exercise of that courage, in turn, further emboldens people.
The sense that money and technology can overcome nature has emboldened Americans. Where money and technology fail, though, it inevitably falls to government policies – and government subsidies – to pick up the slack.
gloss: To format (text) in boldface.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
The [HTML] tags <p></p> indicate paragraphs breaks, and we have included some basic text formatting: <em></em> for emphasis (typically italics), <u></u> for underline and <strong></strong> to embolden text.
Embolden the company name. Balance-wise, the company name could do with standing out more.
Related words: bolden
embold
Derived words: emboldener
emboldening
emboldenment
reembolden
re-embolden
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