Embolden vs Incite - What's the difference?
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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 rouse, stir up or excite.
As verbs the difference between embolden and incite
is that embolden is to render (someone) bolder or more courageous while incite is to rouse, stir up or excite.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
incite
English
Verb
(incit)- The judge was told by the accused that his friends had to incite him to commit the crime.
