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
Yet in accordance with James Baldwin's dictum that suffering ennobles nobody, we must recognize that pragmatism, more than empathy, powered their relationship.
From Salon ● Feb. 6, 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
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
The charms and graces of existence, whatever ennobles and embellishes life, we owe mainly to them.
From Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses by Felix Adler
