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Grammar : Verb
Spell : en-noh-buh l
Phonetic Transcription : ɛnˈnoʊ bəl



Definition of ennoble

Origin :
  • late 15c. (implied in ennobled), from Middle French ennoblir; see en- (1) + noble (adj.). Related: Ennobling.
  • verb honor
Example sentences :
  • For how many years has it been my intention to exalt and ennoble you!
  • Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens
  • They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living.
  • Extract from : « Essays, Second Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • He has not sought to ennoble her heart so much as to weaken it with flatteries.
  • Extract from : « Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women » by George Sumner Weaver
  • No sentiments that enlarge, ennoble, move, or mend the heart!
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 » by Various
  • Because religion ever seeks to ennoble a man; and nothing so debases him as revenge.
  • Extract from : « My Novel, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • He began almost to believe that money could ennoble as well as satisfy.
  • Extract from : « Aladdin of London » by Sir Max Pemberton
  • So he tried to ennoble it by writing it in this way: d'Unlap.
  • Extract from : « The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
  • You will have cares,—and even those will ennoble the world to you, and you to the world.
  • Extract from : « An Old Man's Love » by Anthony Trollope
  • Cornelia urged her son to do some work to ennoble his name and benefit Rome.
  • Extract from : « Historic Tales, Volume 11 (of 15) » by Charles Morris
  • I believe that the experience may strengthen and ennoble her.
  • Extract from : « Adrienne Toner » by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

Synonyms for ennoble

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