What does heartening mean?
Definitions for heartening
heart·en·ing
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Princeton's WordNet
heartening, inspiritingadjective
cheerfully encouraging
Wiktionary
hearteningadjective
cheerfully encouraging
ChatGPT
heartening
Heartening refers to the act of inspiring, encouraging, uplifting, or boosting someone's morale or spirits. It boosts a person's confidence and gives them hope or courage to face a particular situation.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of heartening in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of heartening in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of heartening in a Sentence
It is heartening to see Republicans and Democrats in the House and Senate coming together to stand against the ongoing genocidal massacres by Assad, Iran and Russia against Syrian civilians, this is the most powerful legislation aimed at civilian protection to ever pass Congress since the start of the peaceful uprising in Caesar Syria.
They're sort of symbols for the Chesapeake Bay in a sense and a symbol for what the environmental movement can do when they put their minds to it, to be able to see them on every dock, post and shipwreck in the Chesapeake is heartening and a story of great educational value for the public at large.
When we see countries rally around each other, when we see hands come from multiple governments to support those countries that urgently need vaccines because they just don't have enough, that's really heartening to see.
For me, it is heartening. It is validating, it feels like I am part of a posse of people who have gotten into races for the right reasons.
I think everyone is disappointed to see that Alaska was included at all in the options, however it is incredibly heartening that there is no preferred alternative here, and the no drilling option for the first time we can see is on par with the other options, usually the no action alternative is done pro forma, but here they give it consideration.
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