What is "embolden"

Usage examples of "embolden".

You have already accepted the episode of my coming, or you would have shut the covers before arriving at this page of my modest narrative, and this emboldens me.

Swept her up from the chair and embraced her, essayed a few steps of a popular danza, was gratified and emboldened by her echoing, exultant laughter, by her unfettered joy, by the magnitude of her response.

It was Takahashi, apparently emboldened by her earlier response to Gearman, and she nodded to him.

Emboldened, various intellectuals began to issue open appeals for human rights.

Partridge, having lately carried two points, as my reader hath seen before, was emboldened to attempt a third, which was to prevail with Jones to take up a lodging that evening in the house where he then was.

This letter Lady Bellaston thought would certainly turn the balance against Jones in the mind of Sophia, and she was emboldened to give it up, partly by her hopes of having him instantly dispatched out of the way, and partly by having secured the evidence of Honour, who, upon sounding her, she saw sufficient reason to imagine was prepared to testify whatever she pleased.

Instead, all of the evidence that we have indicates that he would feel emboldened by them to pursue his more grandiose objectives.

Emboldened by their success, the Boers sent raiding parties over the Tugela on either flank, which were only checked by our patrols being extended from Springfield on the west to Weenen on the east.

The tribe used him kindly, but he was so frightened with their noisy demonstration of mirth that he surprised and captured the poor naked King with his houses, and began fortifying his position, showing so much fear that the savages were emboldened to attack him, kill some of his men, release their King, and carry off a thousand bushels of corn which had been purchased, Martin not offering to intercept them.

Republicans casually acknowledging :he liberal premise that conservatives are mean and hateful, the left is emboldened to carry on with ever greater insolence.

Never do most of the radio hosts encourage outright violence, but the extent to which their attitudes may embolden and encourage some extremists has clearly become an issue.

Iraq was emboldened and in November announced that no more Americans would be allowed on the inspection teams, demanded that American inspectors already in Iraq leave, and threatened to shoot down American U-2 spy planes overflying Iraq in support of the inspections.

From this complacence, the critics have been emboldened to assume a dictatorial power, and have so far succeeded, that they are now become the masters, and have the assurance to give laws to those authors from whose predecessors they originally received them.

The issue of the fight seemed rather against us, however, and the Raiders were much emboldened.

Emboldened by the renewal of her order, I told her, without looking her in the face, of my meeting with the Greek slave in the presence of Bellino, and of the act which was cut short by the appearance of her master.