Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To harden; encourage; embolden.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To harden; to embolden.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
harden , to render hard. - verb To
fortify againstadversity .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I am naturally bashful; nor hath conversation, age, or travel, been able to effront or enharden me; yet I have one part of modesty, which I have seldom discovered in another, that is
Religio Medici 2007
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I am naturally bashful; nor hath conversation, age, or travel, been able to effront [89] or enharden me; yet I have one part of modesty which I have seldom discovered in another, that is, (to speak truely,) I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof.
Religio Medici 1605-1682 1923
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I am naturally bashful; nor hath conversation, age, or travel, been able to effront28 or enharden me; yet I have one part of modesty which I have seldom discovered in another, that is, (to speak truely,) I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof.
Paras 36-70 1909
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"I am naturally bashful; nor hath conversation, age, or travel been able to effront or enharden me."
Apologia Diffidentis 1905
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I am naturally bashful, nor hath conversation, age, or travel, been able to effront or enharden me; yet I have one part of modesty which I have seldom discovered in another, that is, (to speak truly), I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof.
Sir Thomas Browne and his 'Religio Medici' an Appreciation Alexander Whyte 1878
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I am naturally bashful; nor hath conversation, age, or travel been able to effront or enharden me: yet I have one part of modesty which I have seldom discovered in another, that is (to speak truly) I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof: 'tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures that in a moment can so disfigure us that our nearest friends, wife, and children, stand afraid and start at us.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864
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