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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It’s a great, and possibly fictitious, myth that ennobles an ethos of isolated bravery.
From Slate ● Mar. 26, 2024
Bel Powley and Liev Schreiber breathe life and tenderness into Miep and Otto's partnership, and Powley ennobles Miep with a range of emotions including a plausible measure of humor.
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2023
Nothing can quite convey the devastation of those who knew and loved “the fallen,” a euphemism that ennobles their sacrifice but also fails to capture the awfulness of violent death.
From Washington Post ● May 29, 2022
We’d like to believe that suffering instructs and ennobles; that our grief, fear and pain increases our sympathy for the grief, fear and pain of others.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 6, 2020
I think she will shortly marry, and then she will be gentler, for love always ennobles.
From Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Wilhelmine von Hillern
