Heartening is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for HEARTENING in dictionary:

VERB:
• HEARTEN, to give courage to, also HARTEN
• make more cheerful or confident
ADJECTIVE:
• cheerfully encouraging

Words related to HEARTENING

hearten10 heartened13 hearteningly19 heartens11

Words that contain HEARTENING

enheartening16 hearteningly19 disheartening18 dishearteningly23

How to use HEARTENING in a sentence

• He seemed everywhere at once, heartening the men, inspecting equipment, overseeing the preparations for defense.
• The very sound of the name Lower Benford was heartening.
• In June, 1784, when the sky was looking very black, he received a heartening letter from a quartet of unknown admirers in Leipzig, one of whom was Gottfried Koerner.
• With the cessation of the direction of Kelly and his heartening song, the fishermen gradually went back to their routine, and their women folk to the market.
• There had been a little more time for reflection, and there was the heartening which comes upon the heels of unsolicited help-tenderings, however futile.
• A smoking-hot dinner has a certain heartening influence to which we are all more or less susceptible.
• However, he found the news heartening instead of discouraging.
• It is much more heartening to tell of the woman who went right rather than of her who went wrong, and for that reason I gladly set down here the story of one of these.
• The abandonment of this camp, necessary though it was, undoubtedly had an extraordinarily heartening effect on the enemy.
• While Smith stood questioning and heartening the downhearted, President Wingfield came out of his house on his way to the Government House.
• It was Mintz, who had given him the heartening word after the committee meeting.
• The progress made in Oxford is heartening, and he trusts still greater progress lies ahead.
• Only yesterday he was reading a most heartening and enthusiastic report of the work in Tasmania, which greatly cheered him.
• With tidings of the Abha Paradise, wed Thou our souls to joy, and rejoice Thou our spirits with heartening voices from the dwellers in the realm of glory.
• The news spread quickly, scaring the old Governor to death, heartening the Indians, who had just been defeated, and putting all Spanish plans at sixes and sevens.
• Then they sat down together, folded their arms, and died like gentlemen, with the good musicians heartening them with their music to the last.
• Accept of my thanks for your kind and heartening letter.
• In a crisis like the present, moments drag like hours, and the firing line needed heartening.
• The ship that was to have fetched reenforcements from Sweden was sent to Denmark instead, with the heartening news.
• But she exposes herself to many perils in the hope of cheering and heartening up the men.
• He spoke honestly, but it was with the idea of heartening the man.

Similar words containing HEARTEN without suffix ing

hearten10 heartens11 enhearten12 heartened13 heartener12 dishearten14 enheartens13 hearteners13 disheartens15 enheartened15 disheartened17 enheartening16 hearteningly19 disheartening18 disheartenment20 dishearteningly23 disheartenments21

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