Embolden vs Empower - What's the difference?
embolden | empower |
To render (someone) bolder or more courageous.
To encourage, inspire, or motivate.
(typography) To format text in boldface.
* 2004 : Jason Whittaker, The Cyberspace Handbook , p216
To give permission, power, or the legal right to do something.
* {{quote-book, year=1985, author=William H. Tench, title=Safety is no accident
, passage=Regulations have been made under the Civil Aviation Acts of 1949, 1980 and 1982 which empower Inspectors of Accidents to do these things.}}
To give someone more confidence and/or strength to do something, often by enabling them to increase their control over their own life or situation.
* {{quote-book, year=1992, author=Nick Logan, title=The Face, page=11-130
, passage=Musically, what originally attracted me to dance was its shamanist aspects, using natural magic to change people's neurological states and to psychologically empower them.}}
In transitive terms the difference between embolden and empower
is that embolden is to encourage, inspire, or motivate while empower is to give someone more confidence and/or strength to do something, often by enabling them to increase their control over their own life or situation.embolden
English
Verb
(en verb)- The tags
indicate paragraphs breaks, and we have included some basic text formatting: for emphasis (typically italics), for underline and to embolden text.
Synonyms
* (typography) boldfaceQuotations
* (English Citations of "embolden")References
empower
English
Alternative forms
* empowre (archaic) * impower (archaic) * impowre (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- It's not enough to give women and minorities equal rights on paper; they need to be empowered to be able to make use of these rights.
- John found that starting up his own business empowered him greatly in social situations.