ennoble
verb (used with object)
to elevate in degree, excellence, or respect; dignify; exalt.
are ennobling
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present progressiveof ennoble.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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On the home front, there are ennobling signs that the nation has transcended the bitter legacy of Vietnam.
From Time Magazine Archive
No studies give such a power of distinguishing as metaphysical, and in their natural and unperverted tendency they are ennobling and exalting.
From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge
These words are more than formal expressions of great principles; they are ennobling.
From History of the Constitutions of Iowa by Benjamin F. Shambaugh
