Ennobling
adj, noun, verb
adj, noun, verb ·3 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 An act of making noble.
"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."
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of ennoble form-of, gerund, participle, present
Adjective
- 1 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."
Adjective
- 1 tending to exalt wordnet
- 2 investing with dignity or honor wordnet
Example
More examples"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom."
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