Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who or that which ennobles.

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  • noun One who ennobles.

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  • noun One who ennobles.

Etymologies

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ennoble +‎ -er

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Examples

  • Of earth’s music the ennobler, of its discord the refiner,

    0 589. World Music by Frances Louisa Bushnell. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900 1900

  • Women, Christ the ennobler of, 484; witnesses of the crucifixion, 659, 688; at sepulchre of Jesus, 681; see and touch the risen Lord, 682.

    Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern James Edward Talmage 1897

  • Still further, we have here a symbol of Christ's glory as the ennobler and heightener of all earthly joys.

    Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV Alexander Maclaren 1868

  • "No, indeed," answered Rachel, rather indignantly, "I think war the great purifier and ennobler of nations, when it is for a good and great cause; but I think education ought to protest against confounding mere love of combat with heroism."

    Clever Woman of the Family Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • Above all, the ideal with him was not a thing apart and unattainable, but the sweetener and ennobler of the street and the fireside.

    Among My Books Second Series James Russell Lowell 1855

  • Could she be to my life that sweetener, that ennobler?

    Kenelm Chillingly — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • House, as the ennobler of a humbled name; and from the moment in which her girl's heart beat at the voice of Hastings, the ideal of her soul seemed found.

    The Last of the Barons — Volume 06 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • If so mean where the choice is so little important to the happiness and career of a man who has something of manhood in him, how much more mean to be the parasite and tuft-hunter in deciding what woman to love, what woman to select as the sweetener and ennobler of one's everyday life!

    Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 07 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • She viewed him through the mists of the future, as the protector of her persecuted father, as the rebuilder of a fallen House, as the ennobler of a humbled name; and from the moment in which her girl's heart beat at the voice of Hastings, the ideal of her soul seemed found.

    The Last of the Barons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • If so mean where the choice is so little important to the happiness and career of a man who has something of manhood in him, how much more mean to be the parasite and tuft-hunter in deciding what woman to love, what woman to select as the sweetener and ennobler of one's everyday life!

    Kenelm Chillingly — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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