ennobled
adj1
Having been made more noble; improved.
- There are families of nations more readily susceptible of culture, more highly civilized, more ennobled by mental cultivation than others, but not in themselves more noble.1863, The Reason Why, page 283:
- Also, the poetic art can be applied very usefully because the human being can also be very ennobled through fair prejudices.2002, Johann Gottfried Herder, Michael N. Forster, Herder: Philosophical Writings, page 296:
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- Their proportion remained largely unchanged over centuries despite the caseless arrival of thousands from the more ennobled parts of the country.2016, Patrick O'Flanagan, Port Cities of Atlantic Iberia, c. 1500–1900:
- Derived terms
- unennobled