Meanings (ES + gloss)
encorajar • envalentonar
To render (someone) bolder or more courageous; to encourage, to hearten.
Nay, now, Luis, thou emboldenest me to remind thee that I expressed a wish that thou would'st not go on thy last voyage to the north, and yet thou didst depart!
[H]earing by chance of your worship's great humanity towards robin-red-breasts and tom-tits, he [a rooster] is emboldened to beseech you to take his deplorable condition into your…