ennobling
noun1
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.1849, William Jay, Sermons:
ennobling
adj1
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.1755, P. Shaw, Man, a paper for ennobling the species:
- 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.2010, C. Stephen Jaeger, Ennobling Love: In Search of a Lost Sensibility, page 140:
1 more example
- It is not a very ennobling voice, the voice of Worldly Prudence; but it is, perhaps, none the less practically influential on that account.2012, Jerome Klapka, Carolyn Oulton, Weeds, page 53:
- Derived terms
- ennoblingly, unennobling