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Ennoble

//ɪˈnəʊbəl// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To bestow with nobility, honour or grace.

    "We’d like to believe that suffering instructs and ennobles."

  2. 2
    give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility wordnet
  3. 3
    To perform on a fabric the industrial processes of dry-cleaning, printing and embossing, and sizing and finishing.
  4. 4
    confer dignity or honor upon wordnet
  5. 5
    To inarch. obsolete, transitive

Etymology

From Middle English ennoblen, from Old French ennoblir. Equivalent to en- + noble.

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