ennoble
verb (used with object)
to elevate in degree, excellence, or respect; dignify; exalt.
had ennobled
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past perfectof ennoble.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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By 1585 he had ennobled him for his services to painting, giving him land, an honoured position at court and changing his name to Farrukh Beg – Lord Farrukh.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 30, 2012
She was above even that thrill of sharp and intense vitality which in times past had ennobled trouble and misery.
From Hilda Lessways by Arnold Bennett
But his doctor, James Coettier, and his barber, Oliver the Devil, whom he had ennobled and enriched under the name of Oliver le Daim, did not treat him with so much indulgence.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 by Robert Black
The pensive gravity of misfortune and premature responsibility had ennobled and made more tangible the traits that had won him in her Northern home.
From The Iron Game A Tale of the War by Henry F. (Henry Francis) Keenan
"I was not aware," said Lorenzi, with offensive gravity, "that the King of France had ennobled Signor Casanova."
From Casanova's Homecoming by Cedar Paul
