ennoble
verb (used with object)
to elevate in degree, excellence, or respect; dignify; exalt.
ennobles
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present tense formof ennoble (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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That awful blur is another stain on history, one that ennobles “The High Ground’s” mission.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 1, 2023
It is also often seen as a form of art that ennobles those who play and listen to it.
From Salon ● Mar. 20, 2021
This is what Italy do, a way of playing that ennobles and vindicates every other team’s victories.
From The Guardian ● May 7, 2020
For it must not be presumed that mores necessarily grow worse from knowing the moral sciences, which teach the virtues, indeed, there is not the slightest doubt that moral education amends and ennobles them.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2019
Alas! they did not know that there are riches which do not enrich, and that it is only the gold that does good that ennobles.
From The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines by Hezekiah Butterworth
