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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of enhearten.
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Examples
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So Samsam ran at Gharib who awaited him with broadened breast and heart enheartened, and they smote each at other with maces, till the two hosts marvelled and every eye was fixed on them.
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Here today in his presence and his absence, as I share with you not only recollections of things past but an awareness that in a most profound way he is with us now and that in the most profound way he will be with us as we go into the battle, I am enheartened, I am encouraged, and I know that there is a victory.
Life Lit by Some Large Vision Ossie Davis 2006
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I do want to tell you that Skate Canada has filed our submission, and we are enheartened and encouraged that Mr. Cinquanta is saying that the investigation will be ongoing.
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Have a good distrust to – day ye, higher men, ye enheartened ones!
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Afterward, tranquilized and centered by the meditation, and enheartened by the previous evening's coed recreation, Switters felt better than he had in a fortnight; felt so good that he came to an optimistic decision concerning his next course of action.
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
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Afterward, tranquilized and centered by the meditation, and enheartened by the previous evening's coed recreation, Switters felt better than he had in a fortnight; felt so good that he came to an optimistic decision concerning his next course of action.
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
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Later Tawnos would wonder if dispatching the last organized flight had been the signal for the attack, if Urza's disappearance in the desert had enheartened the qadir's troops for the assault, or if it had been Mishra's plan to attack regardless of what happened to Urza.
The Brothers' War Grubb, Jeff 1998
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Later Tawnos would wonder if dispatching the last organized flight had been the signal for the attack, if Urza's disappearance in the desert had enheartened the qadir's troops for the assault, or if it had been Mishra's plan to attack regardless of what happened to Urza.
The Brothers' War Grubb, Jeff 1998
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The constable didn't look particularly enheartened as he watched the last of the cloud evaporate.
Time's Enemy Graf, L. A. 1996
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But the hosts of Mordor were enheartened, and filled with a new lust and fury they came yelling to the onset.
The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954
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