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Meanings of ennoble in English

Portuguese
enobrecer

Give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility.

        enobrecer
        Portuguese
        dignificar
        Catalan
        dignificar
        Spanish
        distinguir

        Confer dignity or honor upon.

              dignificar
              Usage of ennoble in English
              1
              The grateful king about to ennoble the victorious ploughman at once replied:
              Darwin and Modern Science
              2
              Roast beef: may it always ennoble our veins and enrich our blood.
              Routledge's Manual of Etiquette
              3
              The fifteenth century saw Japan ennoble it into a religion of aestheticism-Teaism
              The Book of Tea
              4
              The title I give thee for my designation did not ennoble me.
              The Prince of India; Or, Why Constantinople Fell — Volume 01
              5
              Nothing can dignify or ennoble deliberate assassination, or wanton, cruel, secret murder.
              Princess Zara
              6
              Shall man, alone, crown the humble maiden,-stoopto love, and, loving, ennoble?
              Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home
              7
              More broadly, today a play ethic can strengthen and ennoble the work ethic.
              A whole new mind: why right-brainers will rule the future
              8
              So he tried to ennoble it by writing it in this way: d'Unlap.
              The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
              9
              They are not themselves of pure and exalted character; they cannot ennoble others.
              Demos
              10
              You may ennoble him by parchments, I have made him noble in heart.
              Vautrin: A Drama in Five Acts
              11
              It is, to ennoble some of the greatest scientific benefactors of their country.
              Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of...
              12
              He will transform them and ennoble them and make them perpetual.
              Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chapters I to XIV
              13
              She resolved to ennoble her conduct from that moment of her life onwards.
              Two on a Tower
              14
              A human aim-tocheer, console, purify, or ennoble the life of the people.
              Public Speaking: Principles and Practice
              15
              His idealism was a pose to try to ennoble utter cowardice.
              The Parts Men Play
              16
              Adieu, however, to fancy, and to all the sentiments which ennoble our nature.
              Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and ...
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