ennobling

comparative more ennobling · superlative most ennobling

1. Acting or tending to ennoble.

   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

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   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. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of ennoble

plural ennoblings

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.

   1849, William Jay, Sermons