ennobled; ennobling
i-ˈnō-b(ə-)liŋ 
e-ˈnō-
1
: to make noble : elevate
seemed ennobled by suffering
2
: to raise to the rank of nobility
Synonyms
Examples of ennoble in a Sentence
a life ennobled by suffering
Her skill and talent ennoble her profession.
He was ennobled by the queen.
Recent Examples on the Web
Francesca’s father Diego was inspired to ennoble Sicily’s then-low-end wine production at a time when the focus was on volume rather than quality.
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Sofia Celeste, WWD, 21 June 2024
There is little that is ennobling in an enterprise whose primary mission is to seek and destroy.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 9 Mar. 2024
To Williams and others, the finished product will ennoble the site and serve as an exclamation mark on its progress.
—Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 24 May 2024
After becoming an alderman and then a provost of merchants between 1612 and 1613, he was ennobled, and the Château de Fléchères was created to establish Sève’s nobility.
—Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 12 Apr. 2024
Yet allowing the specifics of his ascent to be clouded by disdain is not much better than allowing his memory to be ennobled by mystery.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
Its secondary hero is ennobled by a folksy wisdom and probity so unalloyed as to border on the supernatural.
—Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2024
But the film, like its predecessors in the pantheon of great food movies, ennobles the preoccupation by revealing it as a proxy.
‘The Taste of Things’: Juliette Binoche is Mona Lisa in the kitchen
Cooking, as Dodin and Eugenie demonstrate, is an act of love.
—Emily Heil, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2024
The marvelous aural effect created on the stage at off-Broadway’s Public Theater by writer-director Conor McPherson and 16 other cast members is of hardship and disappointment ennobled by the healing power of song.
—Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2023
Sofia Celeste, WWD, 21 June 2024
There is little that is ennobling in an enterprise whose primary mission is to seek and destroy.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 9 Mar. 2024
To Williams and others, the finished product will ennoble the site and serve as an exclamation mark on its progress.
—Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 24 May 2024
After becoming an alderman and then a provost of merchants between 1612 and 1613, he was ennobled, and the Château de Fléchères was created to establish Sève’s nobility.
—Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 12 Apr. 2024
Yet allowing the specifics of his ascent to be clouded by disdain is not much better than allowing his memory to be ennobled by mystery.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
Its secondary hero is ennobled by a folksy wisdom and probity so unalloyed as to border on the supernatural.
—Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2024
But the film, like its predecessors in the pantheon of great food movies, ennobles the preoccupation by revealing it as a proxy.
‘The Taste of Things’: Juliette Binoche is Mona Lisa in the kitchen
Cooking, as Dodin and Eugenie demonstrate, is an act of love.
—Emily Heil, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2024
The marvelous aural effect created on the stage at off-Broadway’s Public Theater by writer-director Conor McPherson and 16 other cast members is of hardship and disappointment ennobled by the healing power of song.
—Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2023
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“Ennoble.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ennoble. Accessed 7 Jul. 2024.
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