enhauncen

== Middle English == === Alternative forms === anhaunse, anhaunsen, enhansen, enhaunce, enhaunse, enhaunsen anhawncen, enhance, enhaunsyn, enhawnce, enhawse, in-hawnse (Late Middle English) anansy, anhansy (Gloucestershire) === Etymology === Borrowed from Anglo-Norman enhauncer, from Vulgar Latin *inaltiāre. The second /n/ is an unetymological excrescence. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɛnˈ(h)au̯nsən/, /ɛnˈ(h)ansən/, /an-/ === Verb === enhauncen (third-person singular simple present enhaunceth, present participle enhauncende, enhauncynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle enhaunced) To lift, heighten, or raise up. To improve or promote someone: To extol or gladden; to give praise to. To honour; to give a high office or dignity. To provide with knowledge, wealth or power. To feel conceited or vain; to have excessive pride. (rare) To instill pride or vanity; to make vain. (rare) To make (a source of sound) louder or more prominent. (rare) To become wealthy or expensive. (rare, astrology) To be influential (of a planet). ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Related terms ==== enhauncynge ==== Descendants ==== English: enhance ==== References ==== “enhauncen, -ien, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 August 2019.