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

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.

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