v. Obs. or arch. Also 6 inharden. [f. EN-1 + HARDEN v.] trans. To make hard, harden. fig.

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1502.  Ord. Crysten Men, V. i. (1506), 355. The dampned may by length of eternyte be enhardened.

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1583.  Golding, Calvin’s Serm. Deut., lxvii. 407. Wee may well inharden our selues in our wicked customes.

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1643.  Sir T. Browne, Relig. Med., I. § 40 (1656), 85–6. Nor hath conversation, age or travell, been able to effront, or enharden [printed encarden] me.

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1875.  F. W. H. Myers, Poems, 26. She … Whom very stripes enharden.

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  ¶ Used in sense of ENHARDY.

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1779.  T. A. Mann, in Ellis, Orig. Lett. (1843), 417. Your friendship for me enhardens me to try your advice on this head.

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