heartening


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heart·en

(här′tn)
tr.v. heart·ened, heart·en·ing, heart·ens
To give strength, courage, or hope to. See Synonyms at encourage.
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heartening

(ˈhɑːtənɪŋ)
adj
causing cheerfulness; encouraging
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj. 1. heartening - cheerfully encouraging
encouraging - giving courage or confidence or hope; "encouraging advances in medical research"
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heartening

adjective
Inspiring confidence or hope:
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Translations

heartening

[ˈhɑːtnɪŋ] ADJ → alentador
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

heartening

[ˈhɑːrtənɪŋ] adj → encourageant(e), réconfortant(e)heart failure n
(= chronic condition) → insuffisance f cardiaque
(= cardiac arrest) → arrêt m du cœur
to suffer heart failure → être victime d'un arrêt cardiaque
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

heartening

adj news → ermutigend
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

heartening

[ˈhɑːtnɪŋ] adj → incoraggiante
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
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Who lov'th me still?- Give ardent fingers Give heartening charcoal-warmers, Give me, the lonesomest, The ice (ah!
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Their other aunt also visited them frequently, and always, as she said, with the design of cheering and heartening them up-- though, as she never came without reporting some fresh instance of Wickham's extravagance or irregularity, she seldom went away without leaving them more dispirited than she found them.
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A chorus of encouraging shouts burst out for him, and one brave voice flung out a heartening word for me -- said:
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The old life was too hard for such a little thing as you, and we are going to try and make the new one ever so much easier and happier," said Polly, forgetting everything except that this was a girl like herself, who needed heartening up.
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