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Definition of Take heart
1. Verb. Gain courage.
Definition of Take heart
1. Verb. (idiomatic) to be courageous; to regain one's courage ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Take Heart
Literary usage of Take heart
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"To take heart of grace; originally, we may suppose, to be encouraged by ...
take heart of grace, man. Some have supposed it to be more properly heart at ..."
2. The Little Book of American Poets, 1787-1900 by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse (1915)
"take heart AIL day the stormy wind has blown From off the dark and rainy sea; No
bird has past the window flown, The only song has been the moan The wind ..."
3. The Little Book of American Poets, 1787-1900 by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse (1915)
"take heart ALL day the stormy wind has blown From off the dark ... Beside some
golden summer's bier, — take heart! Thy birds are only flown, Thy blossoms ..."
4. Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time: From the Restoration of Charles II by Gilbert Burnet (1840)
"... that was well affected to king Charles, began to take heart, and to show
themselves; .... take heart ..."
5. The Piper: A Play in Four Acts by Josephine Preston Peabody (1909)
"[To Michael, who is overcome] take heart! I swear, — by all the stars that chime!
I 'll not have things in Cages! MICHAEL Barbara ! ..."
6. Poems by Edna Dean Proctor (1866)
"take heart! A LL day the stormy wind has blown ~^^ From off the dark and rainy
sea; No bird has past the ... Beside some golden summer's bier, — take heart! ..."
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