'hearten' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe something that has made you more confident or encouraged you. Example sentence: His kind words heartened me and gave me the confidence to take on the challenge.
Mr Montazeri has recently come out for Mr Mousavi and the reformists, saying that a failure to allow peaceful gatherings could "uproot the very foundations of government".Such clerical support there are only a score or so of grand ayatollahs must hearten Mr Mousavi and rattle Mr Khamenei and his protégé, Mr Ahmadinejad.
More likely, the other governments will grow even more repressive, thus pushing even more of their opponents into armed revolt; the sight of an Islamic victory in one country will hearten Islamic rebels elsewhere; and something like an Islamintern will indeed begin to emerge.An Algerian upheaval will certainly make it hard for the present regime in Tunisia to survive.
But the result was a severe setback nonetheless.The election of a president—a job with little political weight but, in the right hands, perhaps the power to instruct and hearten the citizenry is an unusual reason for a crisis.
A respectable front Sarkozy can't speak proper A Czech's career Balkan bottoms up Two vast and ugly blocks of stone Mr China goes shopping ReprintsThey are likely to hearten the opposition.
But, if the firm does indeed choose Chicago, it will greatly hearten a city that often feels overshadowed by America's more glamorous coasts.The 1990s were good for Chicago, but it hopes the next decade will be even better.
It expects the end of the war in Iraq to push down oil prices, lift consumer confidence and hearten markets.
Only one other like it is known to exist, and that is in a museum in Taiwan.These impressive transactions will hearten dealers who have been worried by the tumbling stock markets this week and by the relative absence of American accents among the crowds of visitors.Two dealers in particular had been counting on the magic of the Maastricht showcase.
Our main finding should hearten Mr Obama.
Some statistics, however, should hearten everyone.
This was an efficient performance that will hearten Craig Levein when the final task of Group I is to keep hold of second place when the last match on Tuesday night is against Spain, while the Czech Republic, one point behind in third, go to Lithuania.
The tenor of Thomas's memoir, as well as his judicial record, suggests that he will continue to display his brand of "courage" — that is, to serve the interests of a conservative élite, and hearten Vice-President Cheney and his ideological kin with his exhortation "Be not afraid".
