Ennobling
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Ennobling is an adjective meaning Acting or tending to ennoble.
Meaning
Acting or tending to ennoble.
More Meanings
- present participle and gerund of ennoble
- An act of making noble.
Example Sentences
It is not a very ennobling voice, the voice of Worldly Prudence; but it is, perhaps, none the less practically influential on that account.
Some of the learned, devoting themselves entirely to criticism, chronology, or philology, remain absolute strangers to the more ennobling sciences.
They may think to improve the Scripture; but by their ennoblings they debase it, by their enrichings they impoverish it, by their enlargings they contract it.
He checks criticism by multiplying the cause for embarrassment and taking it on himself; and this brings the act into the structure of an ennobling chivalric deed.
Word Forms
- ennoblings
Synonyms for ennobling
Depending on context, synonyms include noble, inspiring, exalting, dignifying.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include exalting, inspiring, noble, dignifying, nobilitation, emboldenment.
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