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ENNOBLING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ennobling mean?
• ENNOBLING (adjective)
The adjective ENNOBLING has 2 senses:
1. investing with dignity or honor
2. tending to exalt
Familiarity information: ENNOBLING used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Investing with dignity or honor
Synonyms:
dignifying; ennobling
Context example:
the ennobling influence of cultural surroundings
Similar:
noble (having or showing or indicative of high or elevated character)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Tending to exalt
Synonyms:
ennobling; exalting
Context example:
ennobling thoughts
Similar:
inspiring (stimulating or exalting to the spirit)
Context examples
I am sure I loved that baby quite as truly, quite as tenderly, with greater purity and more disinterestedness, than can enter into the best love of a later time of life, high and ennobling as it is.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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