Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of ennobling, or advancing to nobility; the state of being ennobled.
- noun Exaltation; elevation in degree of excellence; dignity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of making noble, or of exalting, dignifying, or advancing to nobility.
- noun That which ennobles; excellence; dignity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The state of being
noble - noun countable The act of
ennobling or something which ennobles
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the state of being noble
- noun the act of raising someone to the nobility
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Examples
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a nation of new civilisation by what may be called the ennoblement of its lower classes.
Impressions and Comments Havelock Ellis 1899
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To be cut out by a prince has always been a kind of ennoblement in itself.
We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914
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In the 1960s in Poland, getting a prison tattoo required special skills and criminal ambition - it was a kind of ennoblement, each tattoo in the criminal world was meaningful.
Hit & Run 2010
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In the 1960s in Poland, getting a prison tattoo required special skills and criminal ambition - it was a kind of ennoblement, each tattoo in the criminal world was meaningful.
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But his obscurity and newness on the scene -- in 2000, Obama had struggled to even get into the Democratic national convention in Los Angeles, as he endearingly recounted in The Audacity of Hope -- didn't stop him from delivering one of the great convention stemwinders of all time, an exercise in uplift, ennoblement, and possibility that launched him on a steep trajectory taking him to the presidency four years later.
William Bradley: Obama and the Significance of the JFK Inaugural 50 Years On William Bradley 2011
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But that didn't stop him from engaging in his own exercise in uplift and ennoblement and possibility, with an inaugural address widely judged to be among the best of all time.
William Bradley: Obama and the Significance of the JFK Inaugural 50 Years On William Bradley 2011
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In an ideal world, she probably could be, and should be; in our world, how would we react to someone who saw her dysfunctional situation clearly, and declared that she planned to stand by it as an experiment in ennoblement?
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But his obscurity and newness on the scene -- in 2000, Obama had struggled to even get into the Democratic national convention in Los Angeles, as he endearingly recounted in The Audacity of Hope -- didn't stop him from delivering one of the great convention stemwinders of all time, an exercise in uplift, ennoblement, and possibility that launched him on a steep trajectory taking him to the presidency four years later.
William Bradley: Obama and the Significance of the JFK Inaugural 50 Years On William Bradley 2011
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To pay the price out of sheer heart-love that could recognize no price too great to pay, had been the ennoblement of Dag Daughtry which Michael had worked.
CHAPTER X 2010
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But that didn't stop him from engaging in his own exercise in uplift and ennoblement and possibility, with an inaugural address widely judged to be among the best of all time.
William Bradley: Obama and the Significance of the JFK Inaugural 50 Years On William Bradley 2011
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