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hearten (v.)
1520s, "put heart into" (transitive), from
heart
(n.) in the figurative sense +
-en
(1). Intransitive sense "to cheer up" is from 1708. Related:
Heartened
;
heartening
. Earlier verb was simply
heart
(Old English).