"enhearten" meaning in English

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        "3": "heart",
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      "expansion": "en- + heart + -en",
      "name": "af"
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  "etymology_text": "en- + heart + -en.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "enheartens",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enheartening",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enheartened",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enheartened",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "enhearten (third-person singular simple present enheartens, present participle enheartening, simple past and past participle enheartened)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1954, JRR Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, Vol 3, Houghton Mifflin Co., page 164",
          "text": "But the victory did little to enhearten the captains.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To comfort and embolden, encourage, animate, hearten."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "comfort",
          "comfort"
        ],
        [
          "embolden",
          "embolden"
        ],
        [
          "encourage",
          "encourage"
        ],
        [
          "animate",
          "animate"
        ],
        [
          "hearten",
          "hearten"
        ]
      ]
    }
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  "sounds": [
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      "ipa": "/ɛnˈhɑːtə̆n/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛnˈhɑɹtən/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "enhearten"
}

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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "en-",
        "3": "heart",
        "4": "-en",
        "id3": "inchoative"
      },
      "expansion": "en- + heart + -en",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "en- + heart + -en.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "enheartens",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enheartening",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enheartened",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enheartened",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "enhearten (third-person singular simple present enheartens, present participle enheartening, simple past and past participle enheartened)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1954, JRR Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, Vol 3, Houghton Mifflin Co., page 164",
          "text": "But the victory did little to enhearten the captains.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To comfort and embolden, encourage, animate, hearten."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "comfort",
          "comfort"
        ],
        [
          "embolden",
          "embolden"
        ],
        [
          "encourage",
          "encourage"
        ],
        [
          "animate",
          "animate"
        ],
        [
          "hearten",
          "hearten"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛnˈhɑːtə̆n/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛnˈhɑɹtən/",
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  ],
  "word": "enhearten"
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