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HEARTENING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does heartening mean?
• HEARTENING (adjective)
The adjective HEARTENING has 1 sense:
1. cheerfully encouraging
Familiarity information: HEARTENING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cheerfully encouraging
Synonyms:
heartening; inspiriting
Similar:
encouraging (giving courage or confidence or hope)
Context examples
It was not a heartening spectacle.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
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.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
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