What does ennobling mean?
Ennobling means Acting or tending to ennoble..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Acting or tending to ennoble..
Some of the learned, devoting themselves entirely to criticism, chronology, or philology, remain absolute strangers to the more ennobling sciences.
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.
It is not a very ennobling voice, the voice of Worldly Prudence; but it is, perhaps, none the less practically influential on that account.
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.
Use ennobling when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Ennobling means Acting or tending to ennoble..
Common synonyms include noble, inspiring, exalting, dignifying.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Some of the learned, devoting themselves entirely to criticism, chronology, or philology, remain absolute strangers to the more ennobling sciences.
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