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Ennoble   /ɪnˈoʊbəl/   Listen
verb
Ennoble  v. t.  (past & past part. ennobled; pres. part. ennobling)  
1.
To make noble; to elevate in degree, qualities, or excellence; to dignify. "Ennobling all that he touches." "What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards."
2.
To raise to the rank of nobility; as, to ennoble a commoner.
Synonyms: To raise; dignify; exalt; elevate; aggrandize.





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"Ennoble" Quotes from Famous Books



... human aim—to cheer, console, purify, or ennoble the life of the people. Without this aim literature has never sent an arrow close ...
— Public Speaking • Clarence Stratton
... really won't!" she went on soothingly, for now he was rather more ruffled than she. "But I did want and long to ennoble some man to high aims; and when I saw you, and knew you wanted to be my comrade, I—shall I confess it?—thought that man might be you. But you take so much tradition on trust that I don't ...
— Jude the Obscure • Thomas Hardy
... that happy body of men who not only see what is perceived by the mass of their fellows, but are enabled to look through those chains of action which, when comprehended, serve to rationalize and ennoble all that the senses of man, aided by the instruments which he has devised, tell ...
— Outlines of the Earth's History - A Popular Study in Physiography • Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
... large name. We others do not call our inductions and deductions and reductions by any name at all. They show for themselves, what they are, and we can with tranquil confidence leave the world to ennoble them with a ...
— Is Shakespeare Dead? - from my Autobiography • Mark Twain
... impression fill, Which vulgar scandal stamp'd upon my brow.] into which he was seduced by the example of his comrades. It is extremely probable, that the poetical fame which in the progress of his career he afterwards acquired, greatly contributed to ennoble the stage, and to bring the player's profession into better repute. Even at a very early age he endeavoured to distinguish himself as a poet in other walks than those of the stage, as is proved by his juvenile poems of Adonis and Lucrece. He quickly rose to be a sharer ...
— Lectures on Dramatic Art - and Literature • August Wilhelm Schlegel trans John Black


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