Ennoble Definition

ĕn-nōbəl
ennobled, ennobles, ennobling
verb
ennobled, ennobles, ennobling
To raise to the rank of nobleman.
Webster's New World
To give a noble quality to; dignify.
Webster's New World
To confer nobility upon.
Ennoble a prime minister for distinguished service.
American Heritage

To bestow with nobility, honour or grace.

Wiktionary
To ennoble textile fabrics, the industrial processes of dry-cleaning, printing and embossing, and sizing and finishing, which together are known as 'ennobling fabrics'.
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Origin of Ennoble

  • Middle English ennoblen from Old French ennoblir en- causative pref. en–1 noble noble noble

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English ennoblen, from Old French ennoblir.

    From Wiktionary

Ennoble Sentence Examples

  • Was it not a greater thing to ennoble them than to destroy their artistic representation ?

  • In other words, the king or other prince can ennoble.

  • In the grasp of a more inexorable necessity, the champion of Greek freedom was borne onward to a more tremendous catastrophe than that which strewed the waters of Salamis with Persian wrecks and the field of Plataea with Persian dead; but to him, at least, it was given to proclaim aloud the clear and sure foreboding that filled his soul, to do all that true heart and free hand could do for his cause, and, though not to save, yet to encourage, to console and to ennoble.

  • His A Few Words on Horse-racing, a sport which he did so much to introduce and ennoble, appeared in 1839.

  • A genuine baron would in medieval times appoint men to certain offices in his barony, but such appointments did not ennoble them.

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Words Starting With

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ELEBLE

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