MEANING
1. To raise the dignity or moral character of a person, action, or experience.
2. To formally give someone membership or rank in the nobility.
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Words that belong together
- ennoble suffering
- ennoble a profession
- an ennobling act
On the page
Nothing in the account suggested that suffering had ennobled him.
She believed that the care with which he repaired cheap objects ennobled the work.
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Word forms
- Base
- ennoble
- Past tense
- ennobled
- Past participle
- ennobled
- Present participle
- ennobling
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- ennoble
- Present continuous
- am/is/are ennobling
- Present perfect
- have/has ennobled
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been ennobling
- Past
- ennobled
- Past continuous
- was/were ennobling
- Past perfect
- had ennobled
- Past perfect continuous
- had been ennobling
- Future
- will ennoble
- Future continuous
- will be ennobling
- Future perfect
- will have ennobled
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been ennobling
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Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: ennoble; ennobles; ennobled; ennobled; ennobling Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: ennobles.
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